From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B741CE79AC for ; Wed, 20 Sep 2023 07:46:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S234063AbjITHqY (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Sep 2023 03:46:24 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:38026 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S233935AbjITHqE (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Sep 2023 03:46:04 -0400 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (relay.kernel.org [52.25.139.140]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E223710D9 for ; Wed, 20 Sep 2023 00:45:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 78E69C433C9; Wed, 20 Sep 2023 07:45:27 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=k20201202; t=1695195928; bh=vyU8wQPi6oh/NjWmtzvVpS8tL4Q//A1RZnrGiTgWwE8=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=j+tpIOP9B9Kw6nLCMGc/BdMZVi9Y8skhvp2CX1mePe4qQFSCe4m3f7n7WkU3X8JI5 lsMU338oKFGg81pTihTKNfqOIuSJ2PQgvOzIA+0tvRndpPspxcKnQuA/g4cj9x7Fn8 P4UNbY9ctJsrIqtrwKfLmWr8QhjTYWwfykRh9JiNEjRgY30BtYvxxkAouHVQ6nijhl s+AoKczkyld3fKOfwxICbXS6qJXEnEjypt4vDWTppT9pf7uE38n8tmx01wUchwo0gg PH0xeQadAa6f4q1d65VoDOUXrROHlm8cre1mBWWEMPgroXrVAoyAjFqPxOSu89xPcr cuoBlFdIHUURQ== Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2023 15:45:25 +0800 From: Tzung-Bi Shih To: Uwe =?iso-8859-1?Q?Kleine-K=F6nig?= Cc: Jonathan Cameron , Lars-Peter Clausen , Benson Leung , Guenter Roeck , linux-iio@vger.kernel.org, chrome-platform@lists.linux.dev, kernel@pengutronix.de Subject: Re: [PATCH 45/49] iio: proximity: cros_ec_mkbp: Convert to platform remove callback returning void Message-ID: References: <20230919174931.1417681-1-u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> <20230919174931.1417681-46-u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20230919174931.1417681-46-u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-iio@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Sep 19, 2023 at 07:49:27PM +0200, 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 Reviewed-by: Tzung-Bi Shih