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/geodewdt.c | 5 ++---
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/geodewdt.c b/drivers/watchdog/geodewdt.c
index 0b699c783d57..5186c37ad451 100644
--- a/drivers/watchdog/geodewdt.c
+++ b/drivers/watchdog/geodewdt.c
@@ -238,10 +238,9 @@ static int __init geodewdt_probe(struct platform_device *dev)
return ret;
}
-static int geodewdt_remove(struct platform_device *dev)
+static void geodewdt_remove(struct platform_device *dev)
{
misc_deregister(&geodewdt_miscdev);
- return 0;
}
static void geodewdt_shutdown(struct platform_device *dev)
@@ -250,7 +249,7 @@ static void geodewdt_shutdown(struct platform_device *dev)
}
static struct platform_driver geodewdt_driver = {
- .remove = geodewdt_remove,
+ .remove_new = geodewdt_remove,
.shutdown = geodewdt_shutdown,
.driver = {
.name = DRV_NAME,
--
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