[PATCH 21/97] usb: dwc3-st: Convert to platform remove callback returning void

Thinh Nguyen Thinh.Nguyen at synopsys.com
Mon May 22 17:23:16 PDT 2023


On Thu, May 18, 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 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>
> ---
>  drivers/usb/dwc3/dwc3-st.c | 6 ++----
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/usb/dwc3/dwc3-st.c b/drivers/usb/dwc3/dwc3-st.c
> index fea5290de83f..211360eee95a 100644
> --- a/drivers/usb/dwc3/dwc3-st.c
> +++ b/drivers/usb/dwc3/dwc3-st.c
> @@ -305,7 +305,7 @@ static int st_dwc3_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>  	return ret;
>  }
>  
> -static int st_dwc3_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
> +static void st_dwc3_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
>  {
>  	struct st_dwc3 *dwc3_data = platform_get_drvdata(pdev);
>  
> @@ -313,8 +313,6 @@ static int st_dwc3_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
>  
>  	reset_control_assert(dwc3_data->rstc_pwrdn);
>  	reset_control_assert(dwc3_data->rstc_rst);
> -
> -	return 0;
>  }
>  
>  #ifdef CONFIG_PM_SLEEP
> @@ -364,7 +362,7 @@ MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(of, st_dwc3_match);
>  
>  static struct platform_driver st_dwc3_driver = {
>  	.probe = st_dwc3_probe,
> -	.remove = st_dwc3_remove,
> +	.remove_new = st_dwc3_remove,
>  	.driver = {
>  		.name = "usb-st-dwc3",
>  		.of_match_table = st_dwc3_match,
> -- 
> 2.39.2
> 

Acked-by: Thinh Nguyen <Thinh.Nguyen at synopsys.com>

Thanks,
Thinh


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