| Message ID | 20230512212725.143824-18-u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de (mailing list archive) |
|---|---|
| State | Awaiting Upstream |
| Delegated to: | Netdev Maintainers |
| Headers | show |
| Series | can: Convert to platform remove callback returning void | expand |
Dne petek, 12. maj 2023 ob 23:27:23 CEST je Uwe Kleine-König napisal(a): > 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> Acked-by: Jernej Skrabec <jernej.skrabec@gmail.com> Best regards, Jernej
Am 2023-05-12 23:27, schrieb Uwe Kleine-König: > 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> Acked-by: Gerhard Bertelsmann <info@gerhard-bertelsmann.de> Thanks Uwe :-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/can/sun4i_can.c b/drivers/net/can/sun4i_can.c index 2b78f9197681..0827830bbf28 100644 --- a/drivers/net/can/sun4i_can.c +++ b/drivers/net/can/sun4i_can.c @@ -791,14 +791,12 @@ static const struct of_device_id sun4ican_of_match[] = { MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(of, sun4ican_of_match); -static int sun4ican_remove(struct platform_device *pdev) +static void sun4ican_remove(struct platform_device *pdev) { struct net_device *dev = platform_get_drvdata(pdev); unregister_netdev(dev); free_candev(dev); - - return 0; } static int sun4ican_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) @@ -901,7 +899,7 @@ static struct platform_driver sun4i_can_driver = { .of_match_table = sun4ican_of_match, }, .probe = sun4ican_probe, - .remove = sun4ican_remove, + .remove_new = sun4ican_remove, }; module_platform_driver(sun4i_can_driver);
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> --- drivers/net/can/sun4i_can.c | 6 ++---- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)