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| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/base/platform.c | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/platform_device.h | 11 |
2 files changed, 14 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/base/platform.c b/drivers/base/platform.c index 968f3d71eeab..a4938d1c8fe1 100644 --- a/drivers/base/platform.c +++ b/drivers/base/platform.c @@ -1416,7 +1416,9 @@ static void platform_remove(struct device *_dev) struct platform_driver *drv = to_platform_driver(_dev->driver); struct platform_device *dev = to_platform_device(_dev); - if (drv->remove) { + if (drv->remove_new) { + drv->remove_new(dev); + } else if (drv->remove) { int ret = drv->remove(dev); if (ret) diff --git a/include/linux/platform_device.h b/include/linux/platform_device.h index b0d5a253156e..b845fd83f429 100644 --- a/include/linux/platform_device.h +++ b/include/linux/platform_device.h @@ -207,7 +207,18 @@ extern void platform_device_put(struct platform_device *pdev); struct platform_driver { int (*probe)(struct platform_device *); + + /* + * Traditionally the remove callback returned an int which however is + * ignored by the driver core. This led to wrong expectations by driver + * authors who thought returning an error code was a valid error + * handling strategy. To convert to a callback returning void, new + * drivers should implement .remove_new() until the conversion it done + * that eventually makes .remove() return void. + */ int (*remove)(struct platform_device *); + void (*remove_new)(struct platform_device *); + void (*shutdown)(struct platform_device *); int (*suspend)(struct platform_device *, pm_message_t state); int (*resume)(struct platform_device *); |