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/watchdog/acquirewdt.c | 6 ++---- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/acquirewdt.c b/drivers/watchdog/acquirewdt.c index bc6f333565d3..53b04abd55b0 100644 --- a/drivers/watchdog/acquirewdt.c +++ b/drivers/watchdog/acquirewdt.c @@ -271,14 +271,12 @@ static int __init acq_probe(struct platform_device *dev) return ret; } -static int acq_remove(struct platform_device *dev) +static void acq_remove(struct platform_device *dev) { misc_deregister(&acq_miscdev); release_region(wdt_start, 1); if (wdt_stop != wdt_start) release_region(wdt_stop, 1); - - return 0; } static void acq_shutdown(struct platform_device *dev) @@ -288,7 +286,7 @@ static void acq_shutdown(struct platform_device *dev) } static struct platform_driver acquirewdt_driver = { - .remove = acq_remove, + .remove_new = acq_remove, .shutdown = acq_shutdown, .driver = { .name = DRV_NAME, -- 2.39.1