[PATCH 19/89] i2c: digicolor: Convert to platform remove callback returning void

Baruch Siach baruch at tkos.co.il
Mon May 8 20:15:29 PDT 2023


Hi Uwe,

On Mon, May 08 2023, 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: Baruch Siach <baruch at tkos.co.il>

Thanks,
baruch

>  drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-digicolor.c | 6 ++----
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-digicolor.c b/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-digicolor.c
> index 50925d97fa42..3462f2bc0fa8 100644
> --- a/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-digicolor.c
> +++ b/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-digicolor.c
> @@ -347,14 +347,12 @@ static int dc_i2c_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>  	return 0;
>  }
>  
> -static int dc_i2c_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
> +static void dc_i2c_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
>  {
>  	struct dc_i2c *i2c = platform_get_drvdata(pdev);
>  
>  	i2c_del_adapter(&i2c->adap);
>  	clk_disable_unprepare(i2c->clk);
> -
> -	return 0;
>  }
>  
>  static const struct of_device_id dc_i2c_match[] = {
> @@ -365,7 +363,7 @@ MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(of, dc_i2c_match);
>  
>  static struct platform_driver dc_i2c_driver = {
>  	.probe   = dc_i2c_probe,
> -	.remove  = dc_i2c_remove,
> +	.remove_new = dc_i2c_remove,
>  	.driver  = {
>  		.name  = "digicolor-i2c",
>  		.of_match_table = dc_i2c_match,


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