Hi Uwe,
Thank you for the patch.
On Mon, Apr 03, 2023 at 05:40:13PM +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 (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: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> .../staging/vc04_services/bcm2835-camera/bcm2835-camera.c | 6 ++----
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/vc04_services/bcm2835-camera/bcm2835-camera.c b/drivers/staging/vc04_services/bcm2835-camera/bcm2835-camera.c
> index 4f81765912ea..346d00df815a 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/vc04_services/bcm2835-camera/bcm2835-camera.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/vc04_services/bcm2835-camera/bcm2835-camera.c
> @@ -1976,7 +1976,7 @@ static int bcm2835_mmal_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> return ret;
> }
>
> -static int bcm2835_mmal_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
> +static void bcm2835_mmal_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
> {
> int camera;
> struct vchiq_mmal_instance *instance = gdev[0]->instance;
> @@ -1986,13 +1986,11 @@ static int bcm2835_mmal_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
> gdev[camera] = NULL;
> }
> vchiq_mmal_finalise(instance);
> -
> - return 0;
> }
>
> static struct platform_driver bcm2835_camera_driver = {
> .probe = bcm2835_mmal_probe,
> - .remove = bcm2835_mmal_remove,
> + .remove_new = bcm2835_mmal_remove,
> .driver = {
> .name = "bcm2835-camera",
> },
--
Regards,
Laurent Pinchart
