platform: Provide a remove callback that returns no value
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: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221209150914.3557650-1-u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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