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Re: [PATCH net-next 3/4] ath10k: Convert to platform remove callback returning void

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On Thu, Jun 01, 2023 at 10:25:55AM +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.
> 
> Both ath10k platform drivers return zero unconditionally in their remove
> callback, so they can be trivially converted to use .remove_new().
> 
> Also fix on of the more offending whitespace issues in the definition
> of ath10k_snoc_driver.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <simon.horman@xxxxxxxxxxxx>




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