From: Simon Horman <simon.horman@corigine•com>
To: "Uwe Kleine-König" <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix•de>
Cc: Madalin Bucur <madalin.bucur@nxp•com>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft•net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google•com>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel•org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat•com>,
netdev@vger•kernel.org, kernel@pengutronix•de,
Madalin Bucur <madalin.bucur@oss•nxp.com>,
Michal Kubiak <michal.kubiak@intel•com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 2/8] net: dpaa: Convert to platform remove callback returning void
Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2023 16:37:56 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZICWRCDDjI3oc5KL@corigine.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230606162829.166226-3-u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
On Tue, Jun 06, 2023 at 06:28:23PM +0200, 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 (mostly) ignored
> 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.
>
> Trivially convert this driver from always returning zero in the remove
> callback to the void returning variant.
>
> Acked-by: Madalin Bucur <madalin.bucur@oss•nxp.com>
> Reviewed-by: Michal Kubiak <michal.kubiak@intel•com>
> Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix•de>
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <simon.horman@corigine•com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-06-07 14:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-06-06 16:28 [PATCH net-next v2 0/8] net: freescale: Convert to platform remove callback returning void Uwe Kleine-König
2023-06-06 16:28 ` [PATCH net-next v2 1/8] net: dpaa: Improve error reporting Uwe Kleine-König
2023-06-06 17:03 ` Maciej Fijalkowski
2023-06-07 6:42 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2023-06-07 7:58 ` Russell King (Oracle)
2023-06-06 16:28 ` [PATCH net-next v2 2/8] net: dpaa: Convert to platform remove callback returning void Uwe Kleine-König
2023-06-07 14:37 ` Simon Horman [this message]
2023-06-06 16:28 ` [PATCH net-next v2 3/8] net: fec: " Uwe Kleine-König
2023-06-07 6:48 ` Wei Fang
2023-06-07 14:39 ` Simon Horman
2023-06-06 16:28 ` [PATCH net-next v2 4/8] net: fman: " Uwe Kleine-König
2023-06-07 14:38 ` Simon Horman
2023-06-06 16:28 ` [PATCH net-next v2 5/8] net: fs_enet: " Uwe Kleine-König
2023-06-07 14:38 ` Simon Horman
2023-06-06 16:28 ` [PATCH net-next v2 6/8] net: fsl_pq_mdio: " Uwe Kleine-König
2023-06-07 14:38 ` Simon Horman
2023-06-06 16:28 ` [PATCH net-next v2 7/8] net: gianfar: " Uwe Kleine-König
2023-06-06 16:28 ` [PATCH net-next v2 8/8] net: ucc_geth: " Uwe Kleine-König
2023-06-07 14:36 ` Simon Horman
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