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

Robert Foss rfoss at kernel.org
Wed Apr 10 06:10:26 PDT 2024


On Mon, 4 Mar 2024 10:05:56 +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().
> 
> [...]

Applied, thanks!

[1/1] drm/bridge: imx8mp-hdmi-pvi: Convert to platform remove callback returning void
      https://cgit.freedesktop.org/drm/drm-misc/commit/?id=29b39672bc1d



Rob




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