[PATCH 60/89] i2c: rk3x: Convert to platform remove callback returning void

Heiko Stuebner heiko at sntech.de
Sat May 13 09:44:46 PDT 2023


Am Montag, 8. Mai 2023, 22:52:37 CEST schrieb Uwe Kleine-König:
> 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: Heiko Stuebner <heiko at sntech.de>





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