[PATCH 6/8] coresight: trbe: Convert to platform remove callback returning void

Uwe Kleine-König u.kleine-koenig at pengutronix.de
Tue Nov 7 12:28:25 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-trbe.c | 5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-trbe.c b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-trbe.c
index a3954be7b1f3..6136776482e6 100644
--- a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-trbe.c
+++ b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-trbe.c
@@ -1530,14 +1530,13 @@ static int arm_trbe_device_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 	return ret;
 }
 
-static int arm_trbe_device_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
+static void arm_trbe_device_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
 {
 	struct trbe_drvdata *drvdata = platform_get_drvdata(pdev);
 
 	arm_trbe_remove_cpuhp(drvdata);
 	arm_trbe_remove_coresight(drvdata);
 	arm_trbe_remove_irq(drvdata);
-	return 0;
 }
 
 static const struct of_device_id arm_trbe_of_match[] = {
@@ -1562,7 +1561,7 @@ static struct platform_driver arm_trbe_driver = {
 		.suppress_bind_attrs = true,
 	},
 	.probe	= arm_trbe_device_probe,
-	.remove	= arm_trbe_device_remove,
+	.remove_new = arm_trbe_device_remove,
 };
 
 static int __init arm_trbe_init(void)
-- 
2.42.0




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