On Tue, Oct 31, 2023 at 06:00:30PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman 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. > > Trivially convert this driver from always returning zero in the remove > callback to the void returning variant. This doesn't seem like obvious stable material - it's not fixing any leaks or anything, just preparing for an API transition?
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