[PATCH 08/49] iio: adc: ep93xx: Convert to platform remove callback returning void

Alexander Sverdlin alexander.sverdlin at gmail.com
Tue Sep 19 10:54:14 PDT 2023


Hi Uwe,

On Tue, 2023-09-19 at 19:48 +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 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>
> ---
>  drivers/iio/adc/ep93xx_adc.c | 6 ++----
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

Acked-by: Alexander Sverdlin <alexander.sverdlin at gmail.com>

-- 
Alexander Sverdlin.




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