Re: [PATCH] drm/panel-edp: Convert to platform remove callback returning void

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Hi,

On Tue, May 30, 2023 at 12:42 AM Uwe Kleine-König
<u.kleine-koenig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/panel/panel-edp.c | 10 ++++------
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

Looks great, thanks.

Reviewed-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

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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