Re: [PATCH] hte: tegra-194: Convert to platform remove callback returning void

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On 3/11/24 9:04 AM, Thierry Reding wrote:
> On Fri Mar 8, 2024 at 9:51 AM CET, 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 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 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/hte/hte-tegra194-test.c | 6 ++----
>>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> Acked-by: Thierry Reding <treding@xxxxxxxxxx>
Do you want me to take this patch or want to add in your patch series
for the drivers with similar changes?

Acked-by: Dipen Patel <dipenp@xxxxxxxxxx>




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