[PATCH 3/8] coresight: etm4x: Convert to platform remove callback returning void

Uwe Kleine-König u.kleine-koenig at pengutronix.de
Tue Nov 7 12:28:22 PST 2023


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() will be 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/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm4x-core.c | 6 ++----
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm4x-core.c b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm4x-core.c
index 285539104bcc..ce1995a2827f 100644
--- a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm4x-core.c
+++ b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm4x-core.c
@@ -2303,7 +2303,7 @@ static void etm4_remove_amba(struct amba_device *adev)
 		etm4_remove_dev(drvdata);
 }
 
-static int etm4_remove_platform_dev(struct platform_device *pdev)
+static void etm4_remove_platform_dev(struct platform_device *pdev)
 {
 	struct etmv4_drvdata *drvdata = dev_get_drvdata(&pdev->dev);
 
@@ -2313,8 +2313,6 @@ static int etm4_remove_platform_dev(struct platform_device *pdev)
 
 	if (drvdata && !IS_ERR_OR_NULL(drvdata->pclk))
 		clk_put(drvdata->pclk);
-
-	return 0;
 }
 
 static const struct amba_id etm4_ids[] = {
@@ -2400,7 +2398,7 @@ MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(acpi, etm4x_acpi_ids);
 
 static struct platform_driver etm4_platform_driver = {
 	.probe		= etm4_probe_platform_dev,
-	.remove		= etm4_remove_platform_dev,
+	.remove_new	= etm4_remove_platform_dev,
 	.driver			= {
 		.name			= "coresight-etm4x",
 		.of_match_table		= etm4_sysreg_match,
-- 
2.42.0




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