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Subject: Re: [PATCH 07/42] crypto: aspeed-hace - Convert to platform remove
 callback returning void
From:   Andrew Jeffery <andrew@codeconstruct.com.au>
To:     Uwe =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Kleine-K=F6nig?= 
        <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>,
        Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc:     Neal Liu <neal_liu@aspeedtech.com>, Joel Stanley <joel@jms.id.au>,
        linux-aspeed@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org,
        linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, kernel@pengutronix.de
Date:   Mon, 23 Oct 2023 13:06:42 +1030
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On Fri, 2023-10-20 at 09:55 +0200, Uwe Kleine-K=C3=B6nig 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.
>=20
> 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().
>=20
> Trivially convert this driver from always returning zero in the remove
> callback to the void returning variant.
>=20
> Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-K=C3=B6nig <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>

Reviewed-by: Andrew Jeffery <andrew@codeconstruct.com.au>