Re: [PATCH 39/53] drm/shmobile: Convert to platform remove callback returning void

2023-05-08 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Sun, May 7, 2023 at 6:31 PM 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 

Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven 

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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Re: [PATCH 39/53] drm/shmobile: Convert to platform remove callback returning void

2023-05-07 Thread Laurent Pinchart
Hi Uwe,

Thank you for the patch.

On Sun, May 07, 2023 at 06:26:02PM +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 

Reviewed-by: Laurent Pinchart 

> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/shmobile/shmob_drm_drv.c | 6 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/shmobile/shmob_drm_drv.c 
> b/drivers/gpu/drm/shmobile/shmob_drm_drv.c
> index faacfee24763..fa32115320ca 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/shmobile/shmob_drm_drv.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/shmobile/shmob_drm_drv.c
> @@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ static DEFINE_SIMPLE_DEV_PM_OPS(shmob_drm_pm_ops,
>   * Platform driver
>   */
>  
> -static int shmob_drm_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
> +static void shmob_drm_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
>  {
>   struct shmob_drm_device *sdev = platform_get_drvdata(pdev);
>   struct drm_device *ddev = sdev->ddev;
> @@ -180,8 +180,6 @@ static int shmob_drm_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
>   drm_kms_helper_poll_fini(ddev);
>   free_irq(sdev->irq, ddev);
>   drm_dev_put(ddev);
> -
> - return 0;
>  }
>  
>  static int shmob_drm_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> @@ -285,7 +283,7 @@ static int shmob_drm_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>  
>  static struct platform_driver shmob_drm_platform_driver = {
>   .probe  = shmob_drm_probe,
> - .remove = shmob_drm_remove,
> + .remove_new = shmob_drm_remove,
>   .driver = {
>   .name   = "shmob-drm",
>   .pm = pm_sleep_ptr(_drm_pm_ops),
> -- 
> 2.39.2
> 

-- 
Regards,

Laurent Pinchart