[PATCH] nvmem: lpc18xx_eeprom: Convert to platform remove callback returning void

Srinivas Kandagatla srinivas.kandagatla at linaro.org
Fri Apr 12 08:34:39 PDT 2024


On Fri, 08 Mar 2024 09:51:11 +0100, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> 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().
> 
> [...]

Applied, thanks!

[1/1] nvmem: lpc18xx_eeprom: Convert to platform remove callback returning void
      commit: 04075398ec4f7895b90dfbe53d50b7ba73a355d4

Best regards,
-- 
Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla at linaro.org>




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