[PATCH 45/97] usb: ehci-atmel: Convert to platform remove callback returning void

Claudiu.Beznea at microchip.com Claudiu.Beznea at microchip.com
Wed May 17 22:57:29 PDT 2023


On 18.05.2023 02:01, 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 ignored (apart from
> emitting a warning) 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. Eventually after all drivers are converted, .remove_new() is
> renamed to .remove().
> 
> 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>

Reviewed-by: Claudiu Beznea <claudiu.beznea at microchip.com>


> ---
>  drivers/usb/host/ehci-atmel.c | 6 ++----
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/usb/host/ehci-atmel.c b/drivers/usb/host/ehci-atmel.c
> index 8b775e7bab06..61808c51e702 100644
> --- a/drivers/usb/host/ehci-atmel.c
> +++ b/drivers/usb/host/ehci-atmel.c
> @@ -173,7 +173,7 @@ static int ehci_atmel_drv_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>         return retval;
>  }
> 
> -static int ehci_atmel_drv_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
> +static void ehci_atmel_drv_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
>  {
>         struct usb_hcd *hcd = platform_get_drvdata(pdev);
> 
> @@ -181,8 +181,6 @@ static int ehci_atmel_drv_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
>         usb_put_hcd(hcd);
> 
>         atmel_stop_ehci(pdev);
> -
> -       return 0;
>  }
> 
>  static int __maybe_unused ehci_atmel_drv_suspend(struct device *dev)
> @@ -223,7 +221,7 @@ static SIMPLE_DEV_PM_OPS(ehci_atmel_pm_ops, ehci_atmel_drv_suspend,
> 
>  static struct platform_driver ehci_atmel_driver = {
>         .probe          = ehci_atmel_drv_probe,
> -       .remove         = ehci_atmel_drv_remove,
> +       .remove_new     = ehci_atmel_drv_remove,
>         .shutdown       = usb_hcd_platform_shutdown,
>         .driver         = {
>                 .name   = "atmel-ehci",
> --
> 2.39.2
> 



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