Re: [PATCH] staging: media: tegra-video: Convert to platform remove callback returning void

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Hello Uwe,

On Thu, 26 Oct 2023 23:47:40 +0200
Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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() will be renamed to .remove().
> 
> Trivially convert the three tegra-video drivers 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: Luca Ceresoli <luca.ceresoli@xxxxxxxxxxx>

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Luca Ceresoli, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
https://bootlin.com





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