[PATCH 57/59] dma: xilinx: xilinx_dma: Convert to platform remove callback returning void

Pandey, Radhey Shyam radhey.shyam.pandey at amd.com
Fri Sep 22 04:36:50 PDT 2023


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig at pengutronix.de>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2023 7:02 PM
> To: Vinod Koul <vkoul at kernel.org>
> Cc: Simek, Michal <michal.simek at amd.com>; Pandey, Radhey Shyam
> <radhey.shyam.pandey at amd.com>; Rob Herring <robh at kernel.org>; Peter
> Korsgaard <peter at korsgaard.com>; Liu Shixin <liushixin2 at huawei.com>;
> dmaengine at vger.kernel.org; linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org;
> kernel at pengutronix.de
> Subject: [PATCH 57/59] dma: xilinx: xilinx_dma: Convert to platform remove
> callback returning void
> 
> 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/xilinx/xilinx_dma.c | 6 ++----
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/dma/xilinx/xilinx_dma.c
> b/drivers/dma/xilinx/xilinx_dma.c index 0a3b2e22f23d..0c363a1ed853
> 100644
> --- a/drivers/dma/xilinx/xilinx_dma.c
> +++ b/drivers/dma/xilinx/xilinx_dma.c
> @@ -3245,7 +3245,7 @@ static int xilinx_dma_probe(struct platform_device
> *pdev)
>   *
>   * Return: Always '0'
>   */

Nit - kernel-doc return documentation needs to be updated.

> -static int xilinx_dma_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
> +static void xilinx_dma_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
>  {
>  	struct xilinx_dma_device *xdev = platform_get_drvdata(pdev);
>  	int i;
> @@ -3259,8 +3259,6 @@ static int xilinx_dma_remove(struct
> platform_device *pdev)
>  			xilinx_dma_chan_remove(xdev->chan[i]);
> 
>  	xdma_disable_allclks(xdev);
> -
> -	return 0;
>  }
> 
>  static struct platform_driver xilinx_vdma_driver = { @@ -3269,7 +3267,7
> @@ static struct platform_driver xilinx_vdma_driver = {
>  		.of_match_table = xilinx_dma_of_ids,
>  	},
>  	.probe = xilinx_dma_probe,
> -	.remove = xilinx_dma_remove,
> +	.remove_new = xilinx_dma_remove,
>  };
> 
>  module_platform_driver(xilinx_vdma_driver);
> --
> 2.40.1



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