[PATCH 04/13] backlight: da9052_bl: Convert to platform remove callback returning void

DLG Adam Ward DLG-Adam.Ward.opensource at dm.renesas.com
Wed Mar 8 09:23:39 UTC 2023


On 08/03/2023 07:40, 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.
>
>Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig at pengutronix.de>

Acked-by: Adam Ward <DLG-Adam.Ward.opensource at dm.renesas.com>



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