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SubjectRe: [PATCH 4/4] gpu: ipu-v3: Convert to platform remove callback returning void
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On Di, 2024-04-09 at 19:02 +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 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 the ipu-v3 platform drivers 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: Philipp Zabel <p.zabel@pengutronix.de>

regards
Philipp

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