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From:   Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Date:   Tue, 5 Dec 2023 15:16:24 +0100
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/8] regulator: bd9571mwv: Convert to platform remove
 callback returning void
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        Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>,
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On Tue, Dec 5, 2023 at 1:26 PM Uwe Kleine-König
<u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> 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() 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@pengutronix.de>

Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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