Re: [PATCH] clk: qcom: cbf-msm8996: Convert to platform remove callback returning void

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Quoting Bjorn Andersson (2023-09-20 10:29:58)
> On Tue, Sep 12, 2023 at 08:53:43AM +0200, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> > Hello Stephen,
> > 
> > On Mon, Sep 11, 2023 at 01:02:53PM -0700, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> > > Quoting Uwe Kleine-König (2023-09-11 08:15:48)
> > > > 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().
> > > > 
> > > > qcom_msm8996_cbf_icc_remove() returned zero unconditionally. After
> > > > changing this function to return void instead, the driver can be
> > > > converted trivially to use .remove_new().
> > > > 
> > > > Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > ---
> > > 
> > > Do you want to take this? Otherwise, I can apply it to fixes.
> > 
> > if "you" == "Uwe Kleine-König": Please take it via your tree. There is
> > still much to do before the next synchronous step, so there is no urge.
> > If the patch goes in during the next merge window that's fine, too.
> > 
> 
> @Stephen, should I just pick this in the Qcom tree for 6.7 then?
> 

Yes please.




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