[PATCH v2 4/6] coresight: replicator: Convert to platform remove callback returning void

Uwe Kleine-König u.kleine-koenig at pengutronix.de
Thu Nov 16 09:33:05 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.

Reviewed-by: James Clark <james.clark at arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig at pengutronix.de>
---
 drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-replicator.c | 5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-replicator.c b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-replicator.c
index b6be73034996..91d93060dda5 100644
--- a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-replicator.c
+++ b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-replicator.c
@@ -320,11 +320,10 @@ static int static_replicator_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 	return ret;
 }
 
-static int static_replicator_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
+static void static_replicator_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
 {
 	replicator_remove(&pdev->dev);
 	pm_runtime_disable(&pdev->dev);
-	return 0;
 }
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_PM
@@ -373,7 +372,7 @@ MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(acpi, static_replicator_acpi_ids);
 
 static struct platform_driver static_replicator_driver = {
 	.probe          = static_replicator_probe,
-	.remove         = static_replicator_remove,
+	.remove_new     = static_replicator_remove,
 	.driver         = {
 		.name   = "coresight-static-replicator",
 		/* THIS_MODULE is taken care of by platform_driver_register() */
-- 
2.42.0




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