[PATCH 06/27] thermal/drivers/mediatek/lvts_thermal: Convert to platform remove callback returning void
Uwe Kleine-König
u.kleine-koenig at pengutronix.de
Wed Jul 12 03:14:45 PDT 2023
On Wed, Jul 12, 2023 at 04:12:37PM +0800, Yangtao Li 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 (mostly) ignored
> 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.
>
> Trivially convert this driver from always returning zero in the remove
> callback to the void returning variant.
>
> Cc: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig at pengutronix.de>
> Signed-off-by: Yangtao Li <frank.li at vivo.com>
Reviewed-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig at pengutronix.de>
While I like like you picking up the quest of converting drivers, I'd
like to have some coordination in place to not let us do duplicate work.
Best regards
Uwe
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