@@ -1397,7 +1397,7 @@ static int nixge_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
return err;
}
-static int nixge_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
+static void nixge_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
{
struct net_device *ndev = platform_get_drvdata(pdev);
struct nixge_priv *priv = netdev_priv(ndev);
@@ -1412,13 +1412,11 @@ static int nixge_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
mdiobus_unregister(priv->mii_bus);
free_netdev(ndev);
-
- return 0;
}
static struct platform_driver nixge_driver = {
.probe = nixge_probe,
- .remove = nixge_remove,
+ .remove_new = nixge_remove,
.driver = {
.name = "nixge",
.of_match_table = nixge_dt_ids,
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/ethernet/ni/nixge.c | 6 ++---- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)