[PATCH 62/89] i2c: s3c2410: Convert to platform remove callback returning void
Krzysztof Kozlowski
krzysztof.kozlowski at linaro.org
Tue May 9 08:09:07 PDT 2023
On 08/05/2023 22:52, 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.
>
Reviewed-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski at linaro.org>
Best regards,
Krzysztof
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