[PATCH 2/2] tty: hvc: hvc_opal: Convert to platform remove callback returning void

[Nicholas Piggin]

On Mon Nov 6, 2023 at 7:44 AM AEST, 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() will be renamed to .remove().
>
> Trivially convert this driver from always returning zero in the remove
> callback to the void returning variant.

Reviewed-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin at gmail.com>

>
> Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig at pengutronix.de>
> ---
>  drivers/tty/hvc/hvc_opal.c | 6 ++----
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/tty/hvc/hvc_opal.c b/drivers/tty/hvc/hvc_opal.c
> index 8995b253cf90..2cdf66e395cc 100644
> --- a/drivers/tty/hvc/hvc_opal.c
> +++ b/drivers/tty/hvc/hvc_opal.c
> @@ -232,7 +232,7 @@ static int hvc_opal_probe(struct platform_device *dev)
>  	return 0;
>  }
>  
> -static int hvc_opal_remove(struct platform_device *dev)
> +static void hvc_opal_remove(struct platform_device *dev)
>  {
>  	struct hvc_struct *hp = dev_get_drvdata(&dev->dev);
>  	int termno;
> @@ -242,13 +242,11 @@ static int hvc_opal_remove(struct platform_device *dev)
>  	if (hvc_opal_privs[termno] != &hvc_opal_boot_priv)
>  		kfree(hvc_opal_privs[termno]);
>  	hvc_opal_privs[termno] = NULL;
> -
> -	return 0;
>  }
>  
>  static struct platform_driver hvc_opal_driver = {
>  	.probe		= hvc_opal_probe,
> -	.remove		= hvc_opal_remove,
> +	.remove_new	= hvc_opal_remove,
>  	.driver		= {
>  		.name	= hvc_opal_name,
>  		.of_match_table	= hvc_opal_match,