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>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/pmbus/pmbus.h b/drivers/hwmon/pmbus/pmbus.h
index 8751f4073ec..cfa912d0f0b 100644
--- a/drivers/hwmon/pmbus/pmbus.h
+++ b/drivers/hwmon/pmbus/pmbus.h
@@ -361,7 +361,7 @@ bool pmbus_check_byte_register(struct i2c_client *client, int page, int reg);
 bool pmbus_check_word_register(struct i2c_client *client, int page, int reg);
 int pmbus_do_probe(struct i2c_client *client, const struct i2c_device_id *id,
 		   struct pmbus_driver_info *info);
-int pmbus_do_remove(struct i2c_client *client);
+void pmbus_do_remove(struct i2c_client *client);
 const struct pmbus_driver_info *pmbus_get_driver_info(struct i2c_client
 						      *client);