[PATCH 06/59] dma: bcm2835-dma: Convert to platform remove callback returning void

Uwe Kleine-König u.kleine-koenig at pengutronix.de
Tue Sep 19 06:31:14 PDT 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() 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/dma/bcm2835-dma.c | 6 ++----
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/dma/bcm2835-dma.c b/drivers/dma/bcm2835-dma.c
index 0807fb9eb262..9d74fe97452e 100644
--- a/drivers/dma/bcm2835-dma.c
+++ b/drivers/dma/bcm2835-dma.c
@@ -1019,19 +1019,17 @@ static int bcm2835_dma_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 	return rc;
 }
 
-static int bcm2835_dma_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
+static void bcm2835_dma_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
 {
 	struct bcm2835_dmadev *od = platform_get_drvdata(pdev);
 
 	dma_async_device_unregister(&od->ddev);
 	bcm2835_dma_free(od);
-
-	return 0;
 }
 
 static struct platform_driver bcm2835_dma_driver = {
 	.probe	= bcm2835_dma_probe,
-	.remove	= bcm2835_dma_remove,
+	.remove_new = bcm2835_dma_remove,
 	.driver = {
 		.name = "bcm2835-dma",
 		.of_match_table = of_match_ptr(bcm2835_dma_of_match),
-- 
2.40.1




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