[PATCH 03/87] spi: aspeed-smc: Convert to platform remove callback returning void

Cédric Le Goater clg at kaod.org
Sat Mar 4 08:52:41 AEDT 2023


On 3/3/23 18:19, 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 (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.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig at pengutronix.de>

Acked-by: Cédric Le Goater <clg at kaod.org>

Thanks,

C.

> ---
>   drivers/spi/spi-aspeed-smc.c | 5 ++---
>   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/spi/spi-aspeed-smc.c b/drivers/spi/spi-aspeed-smc.c
> index 873ff2cf72c9..3f2548860317 100644
> --- a/drivers/spi/spi-aspeed-smc.c
> +++ b/drivers/spi/spi-aspeed-smc.c
> @@ -787,13 +787,12 @@ static int aspeed_spi_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>   	return ret;
>   }
>   
> -static int aspeed_spi_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
> +static void aspeed_spi_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
>   {
>   	struct aspeed_spi *aspi = platform_get_drvdata(pdev);
>   
>   	aspeed_spi_enable(aspi, false);
>   	clk_disable_unprepare(aspi->clk);
> -	return 0;
>   }
>   
>   /*
> @@ -1201,7 +1200,7 @@ MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(of, aspeed_spi_matches);
>   
>   static struct platform_driver aspeed_spi_driver = {
>   	.probe			= aspeed_spi_probe,
> -	.remove			= aspeed_spi_remove,
> +	.remove_new		= aspeed_spi_remove,
>   	.driver	= {
>   		.name		= DEVICE_NAME,
>   		.of_match_table = aspeed_spi_matches,



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