Re: [PATCH 01/27] thermal/drivers/amlogic: Convert to platform remove callback returning void

From: Uwe Kleine-König
Date: Wed Jul 12 2023 - 06:05:53 EST


On Wed, Jul 12, 2023 at 04:12:32PM +0800, Yangtao Li 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.
>
> Cc: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Yangtao Li <frank.li@xxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/thermal/amlogic_thermal.c | 6 +++---
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/thermal/amlogic_thermal.c b/drivers/thermal/amlogic_thermal.c
> index 756b218880a7..a95c8959e5af 100644
> --- a/drivers/thermal/amlogic_thermal.c
> +++ b/drivers/thermal/amlogic_thermal.c
> @@ -293,11 +293,11 @@ static int amlogic_thermal_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> return ret;
> }
>
> -static int amlogic_thermal_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
> +static void amlogic_thermal_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
> {
> struct amlogic_thermal *data = platform_get_drvdata(pdev);
>
> - return amlogic_thermal_disable(data);
> + amlogic_thermal_disable(data);

I'd make amlogic_thermal_disable() return void, too.

Otherwise looks ok.

Best regards
Uwe

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