[PATCH 00/87] spi: Convert to platform remove callback returning void

[Uwe Kleine-König]

Hello,

On Fri, Mar 03, 2023 at 06:19:14PM +0100, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> this patch series adapts the platform drivers below drivers/spi
> to use the .remove_new() callback. Compared to the traditional .remove()
> callback .remove_new() returns no value. This is a good thing because
> the driver core doesn't (and cannot) cope for errors during remove. The
> only effect of a non-zero return value in .remove() is that the driver
> core emits a warning. The device is removed anyhow and an early return
> from .remove() usually yields a resource leak.
> 
> By changing the remove callback to return void driver authors cannot
> reasonably assume any more that there is some kind of cleanup later.
> 
> All drivers touched here returned zero unconditionally in their remove
> callback, so they could all be converted trivially to .remove_new().

One thing I failed to mention here (because my coccinelle patch to
detect that was suboptimal) is: There are 6 drivers---namely
atmel-quadspi.c, spi-imx.c, spi-mt65xx.c, spi-qup.c, spi-sprd.c, and
spi-ti-qspi.c---that might return a non-zero value in their remove
function. Note that this is exactly the problem that I target to rub out
with the effort to change .remove() to return void.

I'll address them separately.

Best regards
Uwe

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Pengutronix e.K.                           | Uwe Kleine-König            |
Industrial Linux Solutions                 | https://www.pengutronix.de/ |
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