Re: [PATCH net-next 41/54] net: ethernet: renesas: Convert to platform remove callback returning void

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Hello!

On 9/18/23 11:42 PM, 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() is renamed to .remove().
> 
> Trivially convert these drivers from always returning zero in the remove
> callback to the void returning variant.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
[...]
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/rswitch.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/rswitch.c
> index ea9186178091..3c165b15709f 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/rswitch.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/rswitch.c

   Hm, I still need to do a patch clarifying that I don't do rswitch reviews --
I'm not familiar with that hardware and don't have the manuals ATM...

[...]

Reviewed-by: Sergey Shtylyov <s.shtylyov@xxxxxx>

[...]

MBR, Sergey



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