[PATCH net-next 16/54] net: ethernet: cortina: Convert to platform remove callback returning void

Uwe Kleine-König u.kleine-koenig at pengutronix.de
Mon Sep 18 13:41:48 PDT 2023


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>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/cortina/gemini.c | 12 ++++--------
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/cortina/gemini.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/cortina/gemini.c
index a8b9d1a3e4d5..5423fe26b4ef 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/cortina/gemini.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/cortina/gemini.c
@@ -2518,13 +2518,11 @@ static int gemini_ethernet_port_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 	return ret;
 }
 
-static int gemini_ethernet_port_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
+static void gemini_ethernet_port_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
 {
 	struct gemini_ethernet_port *port = platform_get_drvdata(pdev);
 
 	gemini_port_remove(port);
-
-	return 0;
 }
 
 static const struct of_device_id gemini_ethernet_port_of_match[] = {
@@ -2541,7 +2539,7 @@ static struct platform_driver gemini_ethernet_port_driver = {
 		.of_match_table = gemini_ethernet_port_of_match,
 	},
 	.probe = gemini_ethernet_port_probe,
-	.remove = gemini_ethernet_port_remove,
+	.remove_new = gemini_ethernet_port_remove,
 };
 
 static int gemini_ethernet_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
@@ -2583,14 +2581,12 @@ static int gemini_ethernet_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 	return devm_of_platform_populate(dev);
 }
 
-static int gemini_ethernet_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
+static void gemini_ethernet_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
 {
 	struct gemini_ethernet *geth = platform_get_drvdata(pdev);
 
 	geth_cleanup_freeq(geth);
 	geth->initialized = false;
-
-	return 0;
 }
 
 static const struct of_device_id gemini_ethernet_of_match[] = {
@@ -2607,7 +2603,7 @@ static struct platform_driver gemini_ethernet_driver = {
 		.of_match_table = gemini_ethernet_of_match,
 	},
 	.probe = gemini_ethernet_probe,
-	.remove = gemini_ethernet_remove,
+	.remove_new = gemini_ethernet_remove,
 };
 
 static int __init gemini_ethernet_module_init(void)
-- 
2.40.1




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