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[4/5] watchdog: starfive-wdt: Convert to platform remove callback returning void

Message ID 20231106154807.3866712-5-u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de (mailing list archive)
State New
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Series watchdog: Drop platform_driver_probe() and convert to platform remove callback returning void (part II) | expand

Commit Message

Uwe Kleine-König Nov. 6, 2023, 3:48 p.m. UTC
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/watchdog/starfive-wdt.c | 6 ++----
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

Comments

Guenter Roeck Nov. 6, 2023, 4:02 p.m. UTC | #1
On Mon, Nov 06, 2023 at 04:48:12PM +0100, 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>

Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
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diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/starfive-wdt.c b/drivers/watchdog/starfive-wdt.c
index 5f501b41faf9..16df92837c5d 100644
--- a/drivers/watchdog/starfive-wdt.c
+++ b/drivers/watchdog/starfive-wdt.c
@@ -504,7 +504,7 @@  static int starfive_wdt_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 	return ret;
 }
 
-static int starfive_wdt_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
+static void starfive_wdt_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
 {
 	struct starfive_wdt *wdt = platform_get_drvdata(pdev);
 
@@ -516,8 +516,6 @@  static int starfive_wdt_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
 	else
 		/* disable clock without PM */
 		starfive_wdt_disable_clock(wdt);
-
-	return 0;
 }
 
 static void starfive_wdt_shutdown(struct platform_device *pdev)
@@ -587,7 +585,7 @@  MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(of, starfive_wdt_match);
 
 static struct platform_driver starfive_wdt_driver = {
 	.probe = starfive_wdt_probe,
-	.remove = starfive_wdt_remove,
+	.remove_new = starfive_wdt_remove,
 	.shutdown = starfive_wdt_shutdown,
 	.driver = {
 		.name = "starfive-wdt",