hwmon: (pmbus) Don't return errors from driver remove functions
Driver remove functions have an error return value, but rarely return an error
in practice. If a driver does return an error from its remove function, the
driver won't be unloaded and is expected to stay alive.
pmbus_do_remove() is defined as returning an int, but always returns 0 (no
error). Calling code passes that return value on to high level driver
remove functions, but does not evaluate it and removes driver data even if
pmbus_do_remove() returned an error (which it in practice never does). Even if
this code could never cause a real problem, it is nevertheless conceptually
wrong.
To reduce confusion and simplify the code, change pmbus_do_remove() to be a void
function, and have PMBus client drivers always return zero in their driver
remove functions.
Reported-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <guenter.roeck@ericsson.com>
Acked-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/pmbus/max8688.c b/drivers/hwmon/pmbus/max8688.c
index c3e72f1..e148e2c 100644
--- a/drivers/hwmon/pmbus/max8688.c
+++ b/drivers/hwmon/pmbus/max8688.c
@@ -182,7 +182,8 @@
static int max8688_remove(struct i2c_client *client)
{
- return pmbus_do_remove(client);
+ pmbus_do_remove(client);
+ return 0;
}
static const struct i2c_device_id max8688_id[] = {