[PATCH 3/3] spi: atmel-quadspi: Convert to platform remove callback returning void

Tudor Ambarus tudor.ambarus at linaro.org
Fri Mar 17 03:16:03 PDT 2023



On 3/17/23 08:42, 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>

Reviewed-by: Tudor Ambarus <tudor.ambarus at linaro.org>

> ---
>  drivers/spi/atmel-quadspi.c | 6 ++----
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/spi/atmel-quadspi.c b/drivers/spi/atmel-quadspi.c
> index 713a4d6700fd..3d1252566134 100644
> --- a/drivers/spi/atmel-quadspi.c
> +++ b/drivers/spi/atmel-quadspi.c
> @@ -700,7 +700,7 @@ static int atmel_qspi_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>  	return err;
>  }
>  
> -static int atmel_qspi_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
> +static void atmel_qspi_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
>  {
>  	struct spi_controller *ctrl = platform_get_drvdata(pdev);
>  	struct atmel_qspi *aq = spi_controller_get_devdata(ctrl);
> @@ -727,8 +727,6 @@ static int atmel_qspi_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
>  
>  	pm_runtime_disable(&pdev->dev);
>  	pm_runtime_put_noidle(&pdev->dev);
> -
> -	return 0;
>  }
>  
>  static int __maybe_unused atmel_qspi_suspend(struct device *dev)
> @@ -837,7 +835,7 @@ static struct platform_driver atmel_qspi_driver = {
>  		.pm	= pm_ptr(&atmel_qspi_pm_ops),
>  	},
>  	.probe		= atmel_qspi_probe,
> -	.remove		= atmel_qspi_remove,
> +	.remove_new	= atmel_qspi_remove,
>  };
>  module_platform_driver(atmel_qspi_driver);
>  



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