# Re: \[PATCH net-next 09/10\] ieee802154: fakelb: Convert to platform remove callback returning void

- From: Miquel Raynal \<miquel.raynal@bootlin.com\>
- Date: 2023-11-20 11:01:09 
- List: netdev
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/netdev/2023/11/11277398
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/netdev/2023/11/8296092/t.md

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On Fri, 2023-11-17 at 09:59:32 UTC, =?utf-8?q?Uwe_Kleine-K=C3=B6nig?= 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 this driver from always returning zero in the remove
> callback to the void returning variant.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <redacted>
> Acked-by: Stefan Schmidt <stefan@datenfreihafen.org>

Applied to https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wpan/wpan-next.git staging, thanks.

Miquel
```