[PATCH 67/87] spi: sifive: Convert to platform remove callback returning void
Uwe Kleine-König
u.kleine-koenig at pengutronix.de
Fri Mar 3 10:33:31 PST 2023
Hello Conor,
On Fri, Mar 03, 2023 at 05:46:11PM +0000, Conor Dooley wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 03, 2023 at 06:20:21PM +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 (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>
>
> This one landed in my mailbox too, so:
> Reviewed-by: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley at microchip.com>
I have ~2000 of such patches pending in my tree that wait for
submission. If you want a Cc: for each of them, just tell me :-)
Best regards and thanks,
Uwe
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