On Fri, Mar 03, 2023 at 06:19:51PM +0100, 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 (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: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Thanks,
Conor.
> ---
> drivers/spi/spi-microchip-core.c | 6 ++----
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/spi/spi-microchip-core.c b/drivers/spi/spi-microchip-core.c
> index aeaa1da88f39..e6cf6ff08061 100644
> --- a/drivers/spi/spi-microchip-core.c
> +++ b/drivers/spi/spi-microchip-core.c
> @@ -566,7 +566,7 @@ static int mchp_corespi_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> return 0;
> }
>
> -static int mchp_corespi_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
> +static void mchp_corespi_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
> {
> struct spi_master *master = platform_get_drvdata(pdev);
> struct mchp_corespi *spi = spi_master_get_devdata(master);
> @@ -574,8 +574,6 @@ static int mchp_corespi_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
> mchp_corespi_disable_ints(spi);
> clk_disable_unprepare(spi->clk);
> mchp_corespi_disable(spi);
> -
> - return 0;
> }
>
> #define MICROCHIP_SPI_PM_OPS (NULL)
> @@ -599,7 +597,7 @@ static struct platform_driver mchp_corespi_driver = {
> .pm = MICROCHIP_SPI_PM_OPS,
> .of_match_table = of_match_ptr(mchp_corespi_dt_ids),
> },
> - .remove = mchp_corespi_remove,
> + .remove_new = mchp_corespi_remove,
> };
> module_platform_driver(mchp_corespi_driver);
> MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Microchip coreSPI SPI controller driver");
> --
> 2.39.1
>
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