linux-kernel - Re: [RESEND RFC PATCH 1/5] firmware: sysfb: Make sysfb_create

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Date:   Thu, 7 Apr 2022 11:09:14 +0200
From:   Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@...hat.com>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org,
        Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@...e.de>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Miaoqian Lin <linmq006@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [RESEND RFC PATCH 1/5] firmware: sysfb: Make
 sysfb_create_simplefb() return a pdev pointer

Hello Daniel,

On 4/7/22 11:03, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 06, 2022 at 11:39:15PM +0200, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
>> This function just returned 0 on success or an errno code on error, but it
>> could be useful to sysfb_init() to get a pointer to the device registered.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@...hat.com>
> 
> You need to rebase this onto 202c08914ba5 ("firmware: sysfb: fix
> platform-device leak in error path") which fixes the same error path leak
> you are fixing in here too. Or we just have a neat conflict when merging
> :-) But in that case please mention that you fix the error path leak too
> so it's less confusing when Linus or someone needs to resolve the
> conflict.
>

Ups, I thought that had my local tree up-to-date but it seems that was a few
days old. I've updated my remote now and rebased, so will have this fixed in
the next revision of the series.

And this patch becomes smaller indeed :)
 
> Anyway Reviewed-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@...ll.ch>
> 

Thanks!

-- 
Best regards,

Javier Martinez Canillas
Linux Engineering
Red Hat