[PATCH 05/34] watchdog: at91rm9200: Convert to platform remove callback returning void
Claudiu.Beznea at microchip.com
Claudiu.Beznea at microchip.com
Mon Mar 6 03:55:45 PST 2023
On 03.03.2023 23:36, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
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> The .remove() callback for a platform driver returns an int which makes
> many driver authors wrongly assume it's possible to do error handling by
> returning an error code. However the value returned is (mostly) ignored
> and this typically results in resource leaks. To improve here there is a
> quest to make the remove callback return void. In the first step of this
> quest all drivers are converted to .remove_new() which already returns
> void.
>
> Trivially convert this driver from always returning zero in the remove
> callback to the void returning variant.
>
> Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig at pengutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Claudiu Beznea <claudiu.beznea at microchip.com>
> ---
> drivers/watchdog/at91rm9200_wdt.c | 6 ++----
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/at91rm9200_wdt.c b/drivers/watchdog/at91rm9200_wdt.c
> index d57409c1a4d1..d20ec27ba354 100644
> --- a/drivers/watchdog/at91rm9200_wdt.c
> +++ b/drivers/watchdog/at91rm9200_wdt.c
> @@ -258,7 +258,7 @@ static int at91wdt_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> return 0;
> }
>
> -static int at91wdt_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
> +static void at91wdt_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
> {
> struct device *dev = &pdev->dev;
> int res;
> @@ -269,8 +269,6 @@ static int at91wdt_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
>
> misc_deregister(&at91wdt_miscdev);
> at91wdt_miscdev.parent = NULL;
> -
> - return 0;
> }
>
> static void at91wdt_shutdown(struct platform_device *pdev)
> @@ -299,7 +297,7 @@ MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(of, at91_wdt_dt_ids);
>
> static struct platform_driver at91wdt_driver = {
> .probe = at91wdt_probe,
> - .remove = at91wdt_remove,
> + .remove_new = at91wdt_remove,
> .shutdown = at91wdt_shutdown,
> .suspend = pm_ptr(at91wdt_suspend),
> .resume = pm_ptr(at91wdt_resume),
> --
> 2.39.1
>
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