| Message ID | 20230918195102.1302746-3-u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de (mailing list archive) |
|---|---|
| State | Accepted |
| Delegated to: | Netdev Maintainers |
| Headers | show |
| Series | net: mdio: Convert to platform remove callback returning void | expand |
On 9/18/23 12:50, 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() 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> Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <florian.fainelli@broadcom.com>
diff --git a/drivers/net/mdio/mdio-bcm-iproc.c b/drivers/net/mdio/mdio-bcm-iproc.c index 77fc970cdfde..5a2d26c6afdc 100644 --- a/drivers/net/mdio/mdio-bcm-iproc.c +++ b/drivers/net/mdio/mdio-bcm-iproc.c @@ -168,14 +168,12 @@ static int iproc_mdio_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) return rc; } -static int iproc_mdio_remove(struct platform_device *pdev) +static void iproc_mdio_remove(struct platform_device *pdev) { struct iproc_mdio_priv *priv = platform_get_drvdata(pdev); mdiobus_unregister(priv->mii_bus); mdiobus_free(priv->mii_bus); - - return 0; } #ifdef CONFIG_PM_SLEEP @@ -210,7 +208,7 @@ static struct platform_driver iproc_mdio_driver = { #endif }, .probe = iproc_mdio_probe, - .remove = iproc_mdio_remove, + .remove_new = iproc_mdio_remove, }; module_platform_driver(iproc_mdio_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/mdio/mdio-bcm-iproc.c | 6 ++---- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)