On Thu, May 18, 2023 at 01:02:33AM +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 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() is
> 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>
Acked-by: Heikki Krogerus <heikki.krogerus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/usb/typec/mux/intel_pmc_mux.c | 6 ++----
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/usb/typec/mux/intel_pmc_mux.c b/drivers/usb/typec/mux/intel_pmc_mux.c
> index 34e4188a40ff..e049eadb591e 100644
> --- a/drivers/usb/typec/mux/intel_pmc_mux.c
> +++ b/drivers/usb/typec/mux/intel_pmc_mux.c
> @@ -706,7 +706,7 @@ static int pmc_usb_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> return ret;
> }
>
> -static int pmc_usb_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
> +static void pmc_usb_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
> {
> struct pmc_usb *pmc = platform_get_drvdata(pdev);
> int i;
> @@ -718,8 +718,6 @@ static int pmc_usb_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
> }
>
> acpi_dev_put(pmc->iom_adev);
> -
> - return 0;
> }
>
> static const struct acpi_device_id pmc_usb_acpi_ids[] = {
> @@ -734,7 +732,7 @@ static struct platform_driver pmc_usb_driver = {
> .acpi_match_table = ACPI_PTR(pmc_usb_acpi_ids),
> },
> .probe = pmc_usb_probe,
> - .remove = pmc_usb_remove,
> + .remove_new = pmc_usb_remove,
> };
>
> module_platform_driver(pmc_usb_driver);
> --
> 2.39.2
--
heikki
