[PATCH 11/15] PCI: mt7621: Convert to platform remove callback returning void

Sergio Paracuellos sergio.paracuellos at gmail.com
Tue Mar 21 23:40:05 PDT 2023


On Tue, Mar 21, 2023 at 8:32 PM Uwe Kleine-König
<u.kleine-koenig at pengutronix.de> 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>
> ---
>  drivers/pci/controller/pcie-mt7621.c | 6 ++----
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Sergio Paracuellos <sergio.paracuellos at gmail.com>

Best regards,
    Sergio Paracuellos



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