[PATCH 82/97] usb: xhci-mtk: Convert to platform remove callback returning void

AngeloGioacchino Del Regno angelogioacchino.delregno at collabora.com
Thu May 18 02:35:17 PDT 2023


Il 18/05/23 01:02, 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() is
> 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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