[PATCH 3/5] media: nxp: imx8-isi: Convert to platform remove callback returning void

Laurent Pinchart laurent.pinchart at ideasonboard.com
Fri Feb 23 05:14:12 PST 2024


Hi Uwe,

Thank you for the patch.

On Fri, Feb 23, 2024 at 01:59:06PM +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().
> 
> 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>

Reviewed-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart at ideasonboard.com>

> ---
>  drivers/media/platform/nxp/imx8-isi/imx8-isi-core.c | 6 ++----
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/media/platform/nxp/imx8-isi/imx8-isi-core.c b/drivers/media/platform/nxp/imx8-isi/imx8-isi-core.c
> index f73facb97dc5..c2013995049c 100644
> --- a/drivers/media/platform/nxp/imx8-isi/imx8-isi-core.c
> +++ b/drivers/media/platform/nxp/imx8-isi/imx8-isi-core.c
> @@ -506,7 +506,7 @@ static int mxc_isi_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>  	return ret;
>  }
>  
> -static int mxc_isi_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
> +static void mxc_isi_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
>  {
>  	struct mxc_isi_dev *isi = platform_get_drvdata(pdev);
>  	unsigned int i;
> @@ -523,8 +523,6 @@ static int mxc_isi_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
>  	mxc_isi_v4l2_cleanup(isi);
>  
>  	pm_runtime_disable(isi->dev);
> -
> -	return 0;
>  }
>  
>  static const struct of_device_id mxc_isi_of_match[] = {
> @@ -537,7 +535,7 @@ MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(of, mxc_isi_of_match);
>  
>  static struct platform_driver mxc_isi_driver = {
>  	.probe		= mxc_isi_probe,
> -	.remove		= mxc_isi_remove,
> +	.remove_new	= mxc_isi_remove,
>  	.driver = {
>  		.of_match_table = mxc_isi_of_match,
>  		.name		= MXC_ISI_DRIVER_NAME,

-- 
Regards,

Laurent Pinchart



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