[PATCH 42/53] drm/stm: Convert to platform remove callback returning void

Raphael Gallais-Pou raphael.gallais-pou at foss.st.com
Mon May 15 06:53:14 PDT 2023


Hi Uwe,

On 5/7/23 18:26, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> The .remove() callback for a platform driver returns an int which makes
> many driver authors wrongly assume it's possible to do error handling by
> returning an error code. However the value returned is (mostly) ignored
> and this typically results in resource leaks. To improve here there is a
> quest to make the remove callback return void. In the first step of this
> quest all drivers are converted to .remove_new() which already returns
> void.
>
> Trivially convert the stm drm drivers from always returning zero in the
> remove callback to the void returning variant.
>
> Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig at pengutronix.de>


Acked-by: Raphaël Gallais-Pou <raphael.gallais-pou at foss.st.com>


Thanks for you patch

Raphaël G.-P.




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