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, 2 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/pmbus/ucd9000.c b/drivers/hwmon/pmbus/ucd9000.c
index d0ddb60155c9..640a9c9de7f8 100644
--- a/drivers/hwmon/pmbus/ucd9000.c
+++ b/drivers/hwmon/pmbus/ucd9000.c
@@ -239,13 +239,12 @@ out:
 
 static int ucd9000_remove(struct i2c_client *client)
 {
-	int ret;
 	struct ucd9000_data *data;
 
 	data = to_ucd9000_data(pmbus_get_driver_info(client));
-	ret = pmbus_do_remove(client);
+	pmbus_do_remove(client);
 	kfree(data);
-	return ret;
+	return 0;
 }