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    platform: Provide a remove callback that returns no value · 5c5a7680
    Uwe Kleine-König authored
    struct platform_driver::remove returning an integer made driver authors
    expect that returning an error code was proper error handling. However
    the driver core ignores the error and continues to remove the device
    because there is nothing the core could do anyhow and reentering the
    remove callback again is only calling for trouble.
    
    So this is an source for errors typically yielding resource leaks in the
    error path.
    
    As there are too many platform drivers to neatly convert them all to
    return void in a single go, do it in several steps after this patch:
    
     a) Convert all drivers to implement .remove_new() returning void instead
        of .remove() returning int;
     b) Change struct platform_driver::remove() to return void and so make
        it identical to .remove_new();
     c) Change all drivers back to .remove() now with the better prototype;
     d) drop struct platform_driver::remove_new().
    
    While this touches all drivers eventually twice, steps a) and c) can be
    done one driver after another and so reduces coordination efforts
    immensely and simplifies review.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarUwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
    Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221209150914.3557650-1-u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.deSigned-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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