[PATCH 09/13] backlight: mt6370-backlight: Convert to platform remove callback returning void

Lee Jones lee at kernel.org
Thu Mar 16 06:50:50 PDT 2023


On Wed, 08 Mar 2023, 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 (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.
>
> Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig at pengutronix.de>
> ---
>  drivers/video/backlight/mt6370-backlight.c | 6 ++----
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

Applied, thanks

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Lee Jones [李琼斯]



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