On Sun, May 07, 2023 at 06:25:26PM +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 this driver from always returning zero in the remove
> callback to the void returning variant.
>
> Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Liviu Dudau <liviu.dudau@xxxxxxx>
Best regards,
Liviu
> ---
> drivers/gpu/drm/arm/malidp_drv.c | 5 ++---
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/arm/malidp_drv.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/arm/malidp_drv.c
> index 589c1c66a6dc..389ef1c3d9b6 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/arm/malidp_drv.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/arm/malidp_drv.c
> @@ -936,10 +936,9 @@ static int malidp_platform_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> match);
> }
>
> -static int malidp_platform_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
> +static void malidp_platform_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
> {
> component_master_del(&pdev->dev, &malidp_master_ops);
> - return 0;
> }
>
> static int __maybe_unused malidp_pm_suspend(struct device *dev)
> @@ -982,7 +981,7 @@ static const struct dev_pm_ops malidp_pm_ops = {
>
> static struct platform_driver malidp_platform_driver = {
> .probe = malidp_platform_probe,
> - .remove = malidp_platform_remove,
> + .remove_new = malidp_platform_remove,
> .driver = {
> .name = "mali-dp",
> .pm = &malidp_pm_ops,
> --
> 2.39.2
>
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| but they're not |
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