[PATCH] drm/bridge: imx8mp-hdmi-pvi: Convert to platform remove callback returning void

Uwe Kleine-König u.kleine-koenig at pengutronix.de
Tue Apr 9 09:37:01 PDT 2024


Hello,

On Mon, Mar 04, 2024 at 10:05:56AM +0100, 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 ignored (apart
> from emitting a warning) 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. Eventually after all drivers
> are converted, .remove_new() will be renamed to .remove().
> 
> Trivially convert this driver 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>
> ---
> Hello,
> 
> note this driver is currently only available in next.

The driver made it into v6.9-rc1 as commit
059c53e877ca6e723e10490c27c1487a63e66efe. My change however didn't made
it into next yet. :-\

Who feels responsible here?

Best regards
Uwe

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Pengutronix e.K.                           | Uwe Kleine-König            |
Industrial Linux Solutions                 | https://www.pengutronix.de/ |
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