From: "Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <philmd@linaro.org>
To: "Uwe Kleine-König" <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>,
"Gabriel Somlo" <somlo@cmu.edu>,
"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: kernel@pengutronix.de, qemu-devel@nongnu.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/11] firmware: qemu_fw_cfg: Convert to platform remove callback returning void
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2023 18:07:19 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0ed8e2c6-512e-4f62-b436-2ce1b898549c@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8d7d86a24ea36985845c17b6da0933fedbf99ad8.1703693980.git.u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
On 27/12/23 17:26, 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/firmware/qemu_fw_cfg.c | 5 ++---
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-12-27 17:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-12-27 16:26 [PATCH 00/11] firmware: Convert to platform remove callback returning void Uwe Kleine-König
2023-12-27 16:26 ` [PATCH 06/11] firmware: qemu_fw_cfg: " Uwe Kleine-König
2023-12-27 17:07 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé [this message]
2023-12-27 20:46 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
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