[PATCH 12/52] serial: digicolor: Convert to platform remove callback returning void

Uwe Kleine-König u.kleine-koenig at pengutronix.de
Fri Nov 10 07:29:40 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/tty/serial/digicolor-usart.c | 6 ++----
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/digicolor-usart.c b/drivers/tty/serial/digicolor-usart.c
index 5004125f3045..e419c4bde8b7 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/serial/digicolor-usart.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/serial/digicolor-usart.c
@@ -503,13 +503,11 @@ static int digicolor_uart_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 	return uart_add_one_port(&digicolor_uart, &dp->port);
 }
 
-static int digicolor_uart_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
+static void digicolor_uart_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
 {
 	struct uart_port *port = platform_get_drvdata(pdev);
 
 	uart_remove_one_port(&digicolor_uart, port);
-
-	return 0;
 }
 
 static const struct of_device_id digicolor_uart_dt_ids[] = {
@@ -524,7 +522,7 @@ static struct platform_driver digicolor_uart_platform = {
 		.of_match_table	= of_match_ptr(digicolor_uart_dt_ids),
 	},
 	.probe	= digicolor_uart_probe,
-	.remove	= digicolor_uart_remove,
+	.remove_new = digicolor_uart_remove,
 };
 
 static int __init digicolor_uart_init(void)
-- 
2.42.0




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