[PATCH 028/117] media: mtk-mdp3-core: Convert to platform remove callback returning void

Uwe Kleine-König u.kleine-koenig at pengutronix.de
Sun Mar 26 07:30:55 PDT 2023


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/media/platform/mediatek/mdp3/mtk-mdp3-core.c | 5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/media/platform/mediatek/mdp3/mtk-mdp3-core.c b/drivers/media/platform/mediatek/mdp3/mtk-mdp3-core.c
index 97edcd9d1c81..041bcad675da 100644
--- a/drivers/media/platform/mediatek/mdp3/mtk-mdp3-core.c
+++ b/drivers/media/platform/mediatek/mdp3/mtk-mdp3-core.c
@@ -298,14 +298,13 @@ static int mdp_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 	return ret;
 }
 
-static int mdp_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
+static void mdp_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
 {
 	struct mdp_dev *mdp = platform_get_drvdata(pdev);
 
 	v4l2_device_unregister(&mdp->v4l2_dev);
 
 	dev_dbg(&pdev->dev, "%s driver unloaded\n", pdev->name);
-	return 0;
 }
 
 static int __maybe_unused mdp_suspend(struct device *dev)
@@ -345,7 +344,7 @@ static const struct dev_pm_ops mdp_pm_ops = {
 
 static struct platform_driver mdp_driver = {
 	.probe		= mdp_probe,
-	.remove		= mdp_remove,
+	.remove_new	= mdp_remove,
 	.driver = {
 		.name	= MDP_MODULE_NAME,
 		.pm	= &mdp_pm_ops,
-- 
2.39.2




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