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-rw-r--r--drivers/base/platform.c4
-rw-r--r--include/linux/platform_device.h11
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 *);