[PATCH 2/6] powerpc: gpio_mdio: Convert to platform remove callback returning void

Uwe Kleine-König u.kleine-koenig at pengutronix.de
Thu Feb 22 02:40:16 AEDT 2024


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.

Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig at pengutronix.de>
---
 arch/powerpc/platforms/pasemi/gpio_mdio.c | 6 ++----
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pasemi/gpio_mdio.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pasemi/gpio_mdio.c
index fd130fe7a65a..4e983af32949 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pasemi/gpio_mdio.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pasemi/gpio_mdio.c
@@ -260,7 +260,7 @@ static int gpio_mdio_probe(struct platform_device *ofdev)
 }
 
 
-static int gpio_mdio_remove(struct platform_device *dev)
+static void gpio_mdio_remove(struct platform_device *dev)
 {
 	struct mii_bus *bus = dev_get_drvdata(&dev->dev);
 
@@ -271,8 +271,6 @@ static int gpio_mdio_remove(struct platform_device *dev)
 	kfree(bus->priv);
 	bus->priv = NULL;
 	mdiobus_free(bus);
-
-	return 0;
 }
 
 static const struct of_device_id gpio_mdio_match[] =
@@ -287,7 +285,7 @@ MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(of, gpio_mdio_match);
 static struct platform_driver gpio_mdio_driver =
 {
 	.probe		= gpio_mdio_probe,
-	.remove		= gpio_mdio_remove,
+	.remove_new	= gpio_mdio_remove,
 	.driver = {
 		.name = "gpio-mdio-bitbang",
 		.of_match_table = gpio_mdio_match,
-- 
2.43.0



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