[PATCH 4/8] ARM: imx: mmdc: Convert to platform remove callback returning void
Shawn Guo
shawnguo at kernel.org
Mon Mar 13 23:52:33 PDT 2023
On Wed, Mar 08, 2023 at 11:00:08AM +0100, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> 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>
Acked-by: Shawn Guo <shawnguo at kernel.org>
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