When an spi driver's remove function returns a non-zero error code nothing happens apart from emitting a generic error message. Make this error message more device specific and return zero instead. Acked-by: Michael Hennerich <michael.hennerich@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/hwmon/max31722.c | 8 +++++++- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/max31722.c b/drivers/hwmon/max31722.c index 613338cbcb17..4cf4fe6809a3 100644 --- a/drivers/hwmon/max31722.c +++ b/drivers/hwmon/max31722.c @@ -103,10 +103,16 @@ static int max31722_probe(struct spi_device *spi) static int max31722_remove(struct spi_device *spi) { struct max31722_data *data = spi_get_drvdata(spi); + int ret; hwmon_device_unregister(data->hwmon_dev); - return max31722_set_mode(data, MAX31722_MODE_STANDBY); + ret = max31722_set_mode(data, MAX31722_MODE_STANDBY); + if (ret) + /* There is nothing we can do about this ... */ + dev_warn(&spi->dev, "Failed to put device in stand-by mode\n"); + + return 0; } static int __maybe_unused max31722_suspend(struct device *dev) -- 2.30.2