[PATCH 18/31] thermal: lvts: Convert to platform remove callback returning void
AngeloGioacchino Del Regno
angelogioacchino.delregno at collabora.com
Thu Sep 28 04:13:47 PDT 2023
Il 27/09/23 21:37, Uwe Kleine-König ha scritto:
> 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: AngeloGioacchino Del Regno <angelogioacchino.delregno at collabora.com>
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