[PATCH] drm/panel-edp: Convert to platform remove callback returning void
Doug Anderson
dianders at chromium.org
Wed May 31 02:35:57 UTC 2023
Hi,
On Tue, May 30, 2023 at 12:42 AM Uwe Kleine-König
<u.kleine-koenig at pengutronix.de> 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.
>
> panel_edp_remove() always returned zero, so convert it to return void
> without any loss and then just drop the return from
> panel_edp_platform_remove().
>
> Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig at pengutronix.de>
> ---
> drivers/gpu/drm/panel/panel-edp.c | 10 ++++------
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
Looks great, thanks.
Reviewed-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders at chromium.org>
I see no reason for a delay in applying, so I pushed to drm-misc-next:
72a597aed1d9 drm/panel-edp: Convert to platform remove callback returning void
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