[PATCH 36/53] drm/panfrost: Convert to platform remove callback returning void

Steven Price steven.price at arm.com
Wed May 10 16:05:23 UTC 2023


On 07/05/2023 17:25, 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: Steven Price <steven.price at arm.com>

> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/panfrost/panfrost_drv.c | 5 ++---
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/panfrost/panfrost_drv.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/panfrost/panfrost_drv.c
> index abb0dadd8f63..adaacc8c39d7 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/panfrost/panfrost_drv.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/panfrost/panfrost_drv.c
> @@ -618,7 +618,7 @@ static int panfrost_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>  	return err;
>  }
>  
> -static int panfrost_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
> +static void panfrost_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
>  {
>  	struct panfrost_device *pfdev = platform_get_drvdata(pdev);
>  	struct drm_device *ddev = pfdev->ddev;
> @@ -632,7 +632,6 @@ static int panfrost_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
>  	pm_runtime_set_suspended(pfdev->dev);
>  
>  	drm_dev_put(ddev);
> -	return 0;
>  }
>  
>  /*
> @@ -687,7 +686,7 @@ MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(of, dt_match);
>  
>  static struct platform_driver panfrost_driver = {
>  	.probe		= panfrost_probe,
> -	.remove		= panfrost_remove,
> +	.remove_new	= panfrost_remove,
>  	.driver		= {
>  		.name	= "panfrost",
>  		.pm	= pm_ptr(&panfrost_pm_ops),



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