[PATCH 51/52] serial: ucc: Convert to platform remove callback returning void

Uwe Kleine-König u.kleine-koenig at pengutronix.de
Sat Nov 11 02:30:19 AEDT 2023


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 at pengutronix.de>
---
 drivers/tty/serial/ucc_uart.c | 6 ++----
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/ucc_uart.c b/drivers/tty/serial/ucc_uart.c
index ed7a6bb5596a..f9ad942c9aaf 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/serial/ucc_uart.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/serial/ucc_uart.c
@@ -1459,7 +1459,7 @@ static int ucc_uart_probe(struct platform_device *ofdev)
 	return ret;
 }
 
-static int ucc_uart_remove(struct platform_device *ofdev)
+static void ucc_uart_remove(struct platform_device *ofdev)
 {
 	struct uart_qe_port *qe_port = platform_get_drvdata(ofdev);
 
@@ -1470,8 +1470,6 @@ static int ucc_uart_remove(struct platform_device *ofdev)
 	of_node_put(qe_port->np);
 
 	kfree(qe_port);
-
-	return 0;
 }
 
 static const struct of_device_id ucc_uart_match[] = {
@@ -1492,7 +1490,7 @@ static struct platform_driver ucc_uart_of_driver = {
 		.of_match_table    = ucc_uart_match,
 	},
 	.probe  	= ucc_uart_probe,
-	.remove 	= ucc_uart_remove,
+	.remove_new 	= ucc_uart_remove,
 };
 
 static int __init ucc_uart_init(void)
-- 
2.42.0



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