[PATCH 6/6] i2c: Make remove callback return void

Maximilian Luz luzmaximilian at gmail.com
Wed Jun 29 07:25:54 PDT 2022


On 6/28/22 16:03, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> From: Uwe Kleine-König <uwe at kleine-koenig.org>
> 
> The value returned by an i2c driver's remove function is mostly ignored.
> (Only an error message is printed if the value is non-zero that the
> error is ignored.)
> 
> So change the prototype of the remove function to return no value. This
> way driver authors are not tempted to assume that passing an error to
> the upper layer is a good idea. All drivers are adapted accordingly.
> There is no intended change of behaviour, all callbacks were prepared to
> return 0 before.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig at pengutronix.de>

[...]
>   drivers/platform/surface/surface3_power.c                 | 4 +---

[...]

> diff --git a/drivers/platform/surface/surface3_power.c b/drivers/platform/surface/surface3_power.c
> index 444ec81ba02d..3b20dddeb815 100644
> --- a/drivers/platform/surface/surface3_power.c
> +++ b/drivers/platform/surface/surface3_power.c
> @@ -554,7 +554,7 @@ static int mshw0011_probe(struct i2c_client *client)
>   	return error;
>   }
>   
> -static int mshw0011_remove(struct i2c_client *client)
> +static void mshw0011_remove(struct i2c_client *client)
>   {
>   	struct mshw0011_data *cdata = i2c_get_clientdata(client);
>   
> @@ -564,8 +564,6 @@ static int mshw0011_remove(struct i2c_client *client)
>   		kthread_stop(cdata->poll_task);
>   
>   	i2c_unregister_device(cdata->bat0);
> -
> -	return 0;
>   }
>   
>   static const struct acpi_device_id mshw0011_acpi_match[] = {

For the quoted above:

Reviewed-by: Maximilian Luz <luzmaximilian at gmail.com>



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