[PATCH 00/53] drm: Convert to platform remove callback returning void
Uwe Kleine-König
u.kleine-koenig at pengutronix.de
Thu Jun 1 08:40:02 PDT 2023
Hello,
On Sun, May 07, 2023 at 06:25:23PM +0200, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> this patch series adapts the platform drivers below drivers/gpu/drm
> to use the .remove_new() callback. Compared to the traditional .remove()
> callback .remove_new() returns no value. This is a good thing because
> the driver core doesn't (and cannot) cope for errors during remove. The
> only effect of a non-zero return value in .remove() is that the driver
> core emits a warning. The device is removed anyhow and an early return
> from .remove() usually yields a resource leak.
>
> By changing the remove callback to return void driver authors cannot
> reasonably (but wrongly) assume any more that there happens some kind of
> cleanup later.
I wonder if someone would volunteer to add the whole series to
drm-misc-next?!
Best regards
Uwe
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