Re: [PATCH 34/89] i2c: kempld: Convert to platform remove callback returning void

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On Monday, May 8, 2023 9:52 PM Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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>

Reviewed-by: Chris Pringle <chris.pringle@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks,
Chris




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