[PATCH] drm/bridge: imx8mp-hdmi-pvi: Convert to platform remove callback returning void
Uwe Kleine-König
u.kleine-koenig at pengutronix.de
Wed Apr 10 06:28:43 PDT 2024
Hello Rob,
On Wed, Apr 10, 2024 at 03:10:26PM +0200, Robert Foss wrote:
> 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
Great, do you feel like caring for its brother at
https://lore.kernel.org/dri-devel/20240304091005.717012-2-u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de
, too?
Best regards
Uwe
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