[PATCH] clk: imx: imx8mp: Convert to platform remove callback returning void
Abel Vesa
abel.vesa at linaro.org
Wed May 1 04:39:31 PDT 2024
On 24-04-23 09:12:31, 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.
>
> Fixes: 1496dd413b2e ("clk: imx: imx8mp: Add pm_runtime support for power saving")
> Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig at pengutronix.de>
LGTM.
Reviewed-by: Abel Vesa <abel.vesa at linaro.org>
> ---
> Hello,
>
> after the merge window leading to v6.10-rc1 (assuming Linus has >= 10 fingers
> this cycle :-) I want to switch the prototype of struct
> platform_driver::remove to return void. So please either merge this
> patch together with 1496dd413b2e, or accept me sending this patch
> together with the patch changing the function's prototype for inclusion
> to Greg's driver-core tree.
Sure, will apply it today.
>
> Thanks
> Uwe
>
> drivers/clk/imx/clk-imx8mp-audiomix.c | 6 ++----
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/clk/imx/clk-imx8mp-audiomix.c b/drivers/clk/imx/clk-imx8mp-audiomix.c
> index 574a032309c1..be9df93b6adb 100644
> --- a/drivers/clk/imx/clk-imx8mp-audiomix.c
> +++ b/drivers/clk/imx/clk-imx8mp-audiomix.c
> @@ -346,11 +346,9 @@ static int clk_imx8mp_audiomix_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> return ret;
> }
>
> -static int clk_imx8mp_audiomix_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
> +static void clk_imx8mp_audiomix_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
> {
> pm_runtime_disable(&pdev->dev);
> -
> - return 0;
> }
>
> static int clk_imx8mp_audiomix_runtime_suspend(struct device *dev)
> @@ -382,7 +380,7 @@ MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(of, clk_imx8mp_audiomix_of_match);
>
> static struct platform_driver clk_imx8mp_audiomix_driver = {
> .probe = clk_imx8mp_audiomix_probe,
> - .remove = clk_imx8mp_audiomix_remove,
> + .remove_new = clk_imx8mp_audiomix_remove,
> .driver = {
> .name = "imx8mp-audio-blk-ctrl",
> .of_match_table = clk_imx8mp_audiomix_of_match,
> --
> 2.43.0
>
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