Re: [PATCH 06/20] pinctrl: intel: lynxpoint: Convert to platform remove callback returning void

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On Mon, Oct 09, 2023 at 02:10:48PM +0300, Mika Westerberg wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 09, 2023 at 10:38:42AM +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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Acked-by: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Pushed to my review and testing queue, thanks!

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko





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