Re: [PATCH] phy: xilinx: Convert to platform remove callback returning void

[Michal Simek <michal.simek@amd.com>]

On 3/8/24 09:51, 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.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
> ---
>   drivers/phy/xilinx/phy-zynqmp.c | 6 ++----
>   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/phy/xilinx/phy-zynqmp.c b/drivers/phy/xilinx/phy-zynqmp.c
> index f72c5257d712..dc8319bda43d 100644
> --- a/drivers/phy/xilinx/phy-zynqmp.c
> +++ b/drivers/phy/xilinx/phy-zynqmp.c
> @@ -995,15 +995,13 @@ static int xpsgtr_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>   	return 0;
>   }
>   
> -static int xpsgtr_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
> +static void xpsgtr_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
>   {
>   	struct xpsgtr_dev *gtr_dev = platform_get_drvdata(pdev);
>   
>   	pm_runtime_disable(gtr_dev->dev);
>   	pm_runtime_put_noidle(gtr_dev->dev);
>   	pm_runtime_set_suspended(gtr_dev->dev);
> -
> -	return 0;
>   }
>   
>   static const struct of_device_id xpsgtr_of_match[] = {
> @@ -1015,7 +1013,7 @@ MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(of, xpsgtr_of_match);
>   
>   static struct platform_driver xpsgtr_driver = {
>   	.probe = xpsgtr_probe,
> -	.remove	= xpsgtr_remove,
> +	.remove_new = xpsgtr_remove,
>   	.driver = {
>   		.name = "xilinx-psgtr",
>   		.of_match_table	= xpsgtr_of_match,
> 
> base-commit: 8ffc8b1bbd505e27e2c8439d326b6059c906c9dd

Acked-by: Michal Simek <michal.simek@amd.com>

Thanks,
Michal

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