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Date:   Fri, 17 Nov 2023 11:18:59 -0800
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Subject: Re: [PATCH wifi-next 2/6] wifi: ath5k: Convert to platform remove
 callback returning void
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        Kalle Valo <kvalo@kernel.org>
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On 11/17/2023 1:30 AM, 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() 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: Jeff Johnson <quic_jjohnson@quicinc.com>