[PATCH v4 01/13] drm/xe: Add callback support for driver remove

[Raag Jadav]

On Wed, Feb 12, 2025 at 11:35:48AM -0800, Lucas De Marchi wrote:
> xe device probe uses devm cleanup in most places. However there are a
> few cases where this is not possible: when the driver interacts with
> component add/del. In that case, the resource group would be cleanup
> while the entire device resources are in the process of cleanup.  One
> example is the xe_gsc_proxy and display using that to interact with mei
> and audio.
> 
> Add a callback-based remove so the exception doesn't make the probe
> use multiple error handling styles.
> 
> v2: Change internal API to mimic the devm API. This will make it easier
>     to migrate in future when devm can be used.

Which means we'd like to go back to devm action someday, or is that even
possible? Assuming it is, and still worth it, why not try to do that
instead?

Raag