On Tue, Nov 30, 2021 at 10:52:55AM +0100, Thomas Zimmermann wrote: > GEM helper libraries use struct drm_driver.gem_create_object to let > drivers override GEM object allocation. On failure, the call returns > NULL. > > Change the semantics to make the calls return a pointer-encoded error. > This aligns the callback with its callers. Fixes the ingenic driver, > which already returns an error pointer. > > Also update the callers to handle the involved types more strictly. > > Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@xxxxxxx> > --- > There is an alternative patch at [1] that updates the value returned > by ingenics' gem_create_object to NULL. Fixing the interface to return > an errno code is more consistent with the rest of the GEM functions. > > [1] https://lore.kernel.org/dri-devel/20211118111522.GD1147@kili/ Acked-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime@xxxxxxxxxx> Maxime
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