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[net-next,v2,4/8] net: fman: Convert to platform remove callback returning void

Message ID 20230606162829.166226-5-u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de (mailing list archive)
State Changes Requested
Delegated to: Netdev Maintainers
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Series net: freescale: Convert to platform remove callback returning void | expand

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Commit Message

Uwe Kleine-König June 6, 2023, 4:28 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 (mostly) ignored
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.

Trivially convert this driver from always returning zero in the remove
callback to the void returning variant.

Acked-by: Madalin Bucur <madalin.bucur@oss.nxp.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Kubiak <michal.kubiak@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fman/mac.c | 5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

Comments

Simon Horman June 7, 2023, 2:38 p.m. UTC | #1
On Tue, Jun 06, 2023 at 06:28:25PM +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 (mostly) ignored
> 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.
> 
> Trivially convert this driver from always returning zero in the remove
> callback to the void returning variant.
> 
> Acked-by: Madalin Bucur <madalin.bucur@oss.nxp.com>
> Reviewed-by: Michal Kubiak <michal.kubiak@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>

Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <simon.horman@corigine.com>
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diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fman/mac.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fman/mac.c
index 43665806c590..c5045891d694 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fman/mac.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fman/mac.c
@@ -331,12 +331,11 @@  static int mac_probe(struct platform_device *_of_dev)
 	return err;
 }
 
-static int mac_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
+static void mac_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
 {
 	struct mac_device *mac_dev = platform_get_drvdata(pdev);
 
 	platform_device_unregister(mac_dev->priv->eth_dev);
-	return 0;
 }
 
 static struct platform_driver mac_driver = {
@@ -345,7 +344,7 @@  static struct platform_driver mac_driver = {
 		.of_match_table	= mac_match,
 	},
 	.probe		= mac_probe,
-	.remove		= mac_remove,
+	.remove_new	= mac_remove,
 };
 
 builtin_platform_driver(mac_driver);