[PATCH v2] powerpc/512x: lpbfifo: Convert to platform remove callback returning void

Michael Ellerman patch-notifications at ellerman.id.au
Thu Jul 20 23:50:50 AEST 2023


On Tue, 11 Jul 2023 16:31:45 +0200, Uwe Kleine-König 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 ignored (apart
> from emitting a warning) 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. Eventually after all drivers
> are converted, .remove_new() is renamed to .remove().
> 
> [...]

Applied to powerpc/fixes.

[1/1] powerpc/512x: lpbfifo: Convert to platform remove callback returning void
      https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/8739312ed2faa79df61d157ac44fda840646d444

cheers


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