[PATCH 16/53] drm/bridge: tfp410: Convert to platform remove callback returning void

Laurent Pinchart laurent.pinchart at ideasonboard.com
Mon May 8 02:44:49 UTC 2023


Hi Uwe,

Thank you for the patch.

On Sun, May 07, 2023 at 06:25:39PM +0200, 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 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>

Reviewed-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart at ideasonboard.com>

> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/ti-tfp410.c | 6 ++----
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/ti-tfp410.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/ti-tfp410.c
> index 6db69df0e18b..ab63225cd635 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/ti-tfp410.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/ti-tfp410.c
> @@ -355,11 +355,9 @@ static int tfp410_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>  	return tfp410_init(&pdev->dev, false);
>  }
>  
> -static int tfp410_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
> +static void tfp410_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
>  {
>  	tfp410_fini(&pdev->dev);
> -
> -	return 0;
>  }
>  
>  static const struct of_device_id tfp410_match[] = {
> @@ -370,7 +368,7 @@ MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(of, tfp410_match);
>  
>  static struct platform_driver tfp410_platform_driver = {
>  	.probe	= tfp410_probe,
> -	.remove	= tfp410_remove,
> +	.remove_new = tfp410_remove,
>  	.driver	= {
>  		.name		= "tfp410-bridge",
>  		.of_match_table	= tfp410_match,
> -- 
> 2.39.2
> 

-- 
Regards,

Laurent Pinchart


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