[PATCH 1/2] drm: debugfs: make drm_debugfs_remove_files() a void function

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Fri, Jun 14, 2019 at 04:59:08PM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 14, 2019 at 11:51:09AM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > The function can not fail, and no one checks the current return value,
> > so just mark it as a void function so no one gets confused.
> > 
> > Cc: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst at linux.intel.com>
> > Cc: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard at bootlin.com>
> > Cc: Sean Paul <sean at poorly.run>
> > Cc: David Airlie <airlied at linux.ie>
> > Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel at ffwll.ch>
> > Cc: dri-devel at lists.freedesktop.org
> > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>
> > ---
> >  drivers/gpu/drm/drm_debugfs.c | 5 ++---
> >  include/drm/drm_debugfs.h     | 9 ++++-----
> >  2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_debugfs.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_debugfs.c
> > index 6f2802e9bfb5..515569002c86 100644
> > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_debugfs.c
> > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_debugfs.c
> > @@ -270,8 +270,8 @@ int drm_debugfs_init(struct drm_minor *minor, int minor_id,
> >  }
> >  
> >  
> > -int drm_debugfs_remove_files(const struct drm_info_list *files, int count,
> > -			     struct drm_minor *minor)
> > +void drm_debugfs_remove_files(const struct drm_info_list *files, int count,
> > +			      struct drm_minor *minor)
> 
> We're trying to entirely nuke this function here, see the kerneldoc for
> drm_debugfs_create_files(). Only user left is tegra, and we call the
> "remove all debugfs files" and the ->early_unregister hooks all from the
> same place. So this can all be garbage collected. It's mildly annoying
> because we'd need to move the kfree from ->early_unregister into ->destroy
> callbacks, because connectors are unregister before we throw away all the
> debugfs files in drm_dev_unregister(). But imo that's cleaner anway.

I would love to see this function gone, it can also make things a lot
simpler from the point of view of creating the debugfs files as well, as
no dentries will need to be saved.

> Up for that?

Sure, I can do that.  I have a much larger patch messing with
drm_debugfs_create_files() that I want you all to be in a good mood for
when I submit it (it touches all drivers at once), so I might as well
clean this up first :)

Give me a week, I'm supposed to be writing my slides for a conference
now, instead I'm procrastinating by writing debugfs cleanup patches, I
need to stop...

thanks,

greg k-h