Hi,
On Mon 03 Apr 23, 17:40, 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: Paul Kocialkowski <paul.kocialkowski@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Thanks,
Paul
> ---
> drivers/staging/media/sunxi/cedrus/cedrus.c | 6 ++----
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/media/sunxi/cedrus/cedrus.c b/drivers/staging/media/sunxi/cedrus/cedrus.c
> index a43d5ff66716..3c62376c3e94 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/media/sunxi/cedrus/cedrus.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/media/sunxi/cedrus/cedrus.c
> @@ -543,7 +543,7 @@ static int cedrus_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> return ret;
> }
>
> -static int cedrus_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
> +static void cedrus_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
> {
> struct cedrus_dev *dev = platform_get_drvdata(pdev);
>
> @@ -558,8 +558,6 @@ static int cedrus_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
> v4l2_device_unregister(&dev->v4l2_dev);
>
> cedrus_hw_remove(dev);
> -
> - return 0;
> }
>
> static const struct cedrus_variant sun4i_a10_cedrus_variant = {
> @@ -706,7 +704,7 @@ static const struct dev_pm_ops cedrus_dev_pm_ops = {
>
> static struct platform_driver cedrus_driver = {
> .probe = cedrus_probe,
> - .remove = cedrus_remove,
> + .remove_new = cedrus_remove,
> .driver = {
> .name = CEDRUS_NAME,
> .of_match_table = of_match_ptr(cedrus_dt_match),
> --
> 2.39.2
>
--
Paul Kocialkowski, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and kernel engineering
https://bootlin.com
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