Re: [PATCH net-next 11/11] net: stmmac: dwmac-tegra: Convert to platform remove callback returning void

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On Sun, Apr 02, 2023 at 04:30:25PM +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>
> ---
>  drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac-tegra.c | 6 ++----
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

Acked-by: Thierry Reding <treding@xxxxxxxxxx>

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