Re: [PATCH v2 09/61] mmc: sdhci-pic32: Convert to platform remove callback returning void

[Adrian Hunter]

On 26/07/23 06:59, 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>

I already acked a number of patches:

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mmc/af01d060-dbaa-aa54-8203-3da5fcbc0a79@xxxxxxxxx/

Also there do not seem to be any changelogs?

> ---
>  drivers/mmc/host/sdhci-pic32.c | 6 ++----
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/mmc/host/sdhci-pic32.c b/drivers/mmc/host/sdhci-pic32.c
> index 6696b6bdd88e..7a0351a9c74e 100644
> --- a/drivers/mmc/host/sdhci-pic32.c
> +++ b/drivers/mmc/host/sdhci-pic32.c
> @@ -210,7 +210,7 @@ static int pic32_sdhci_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>  	return ret;
>  }
>  
> -static int pic32_sdhci_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
> +static void pic32_sdhci_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
>  {
>  	struct sdhci_host *host = platform_get_drvdata(pdev);
>  	struct pic32_sdhci_priv *sdhci_pdata = sdhci_priv(host);
> @@ -221,8 +221,6 @@ static int pic32_sdhci_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
>  	clk_disable_unprepare(sdhci_pdata->base_clk);
>  	clk_disable_unprepare(sdhci_pdata->sys_clk);
>  	sdhci_pltfm_free(pdev);
> -
> -	return 0;
>  }
>  
>  static const struct of_device_id pic32_sdhci_id_table[] = {
> @@ -238,7 +236,7 @@ static struct platform_driver pic32_sdhci_driver = {
>  		.of_match_table = of_match_ptr(pic32_sdhci_id_table),
>  	},
>  	.probe		= pic32_sdhci_probe,
> -	.remove		= pic32_sdhci_remove,
> +	.remove_new	= pic32_sdhci_remove,
>  };
>  
>  module_platform_driver(pic32_sdhci_driver);