[PATCH 22/31] thermal: rockchip: Convert to platform remove callback returning void

Heiko Stuebner heiko at sntech.de
Sun Oct 1 15:53:53 PDT 2023


Am Mittwoch, 27. September 2023, 21:37:27 CEST schrieb Uwe Kleine-König:
> 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: Heiko Stuebner <heiko at sntech.de>





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