[PATCH 22/53] drm/imx/ipuv3: Convert to platform remove callback returning void

Philipp Zabel p.zabel at pengutronix.de
Mon May 8 00:10:05 PDT 2023


On So, 2023-05-07 at 18:25 +0200, 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 the ipuv3 imx drivers 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: Philipp Zabel <p.zabel at pengutronix.de>

regards
Philipp




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