Re: [PATCH 01/19] can: at91_can: Convert to platform remove callback returning void

[<Claudiu.Beznea@microchip.com>]

On 13.05.2023 00:27, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
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> 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().
> 
> 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>

Reviewed-by: Claudiu Beznea <claudiu.beznea@microchip.com>


> ---
>  drivers/net/can/at91_can.c | 6 ++----
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/can/at91_can.c b/drivers/net/can/at91_can.c
> index 199cb200f2bd..4621266851ed 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/can/at91_can.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/can/at91_can.c
> @@ -1346,7 +1346,7 @@ static int at91_can_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>         return err;
>  }
> 
> -static int at91_can_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
> +static void at91_can_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
>  {
>         struct net_device *dev = platform_get_drvdata(pdev);
>         struct at91_priv *priv = netdev_priv(dev);
> @@ -1362,8 +1362,6 @@ static int at91_can_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
>         clk_put(priv->clk);
> 
>         free_candev(dev);
> -
> -       return 0;
>  }
> 
>  static const struct platform_device_id at91_can_id_table[] = {
> @@ -1381,7 +1379,7 @@ MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(platform, at91_can_id_table);
> 
>  static struct platform_driver at91_can_driver = {
>         .probe = at91_can_probe,
> -       .remove = at91_can_remove,
> +       .remove_new = at91_can_remove,
>         .driver = {
>                 .name = KBUILD_MODNAME,
>                 .of_match_table = of_match_ptr(at91_can_dt_ids),
> --
> 2.39.2
>