Re: [PATCH 04/27] drivers/thermal/rcar_gen3_thermal: Convert to platform remove callback returning void

From: Geert Uytterhoeven
Date: Wed Jul 12 2023 - 07:44:28 EST


On Wed, Jul 12, 2023 at 10:16 AM Yangtao Li <frank.li@xxxxxxxx> 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>

Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@xxxxxxxxx>

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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