linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/4] gpu: Convert to platform remove callback returning void

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Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2024 13:28:38 +0200
From: "Thierry Reding" <thierry.reding@...il.com>
To: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>,
 "David Airlie" <airlied@...il.com>, "Daniel Vetter" <daniel@...ll.ch>
Cc: "Frank Binns" <frank.binns@...tec.com>, "Matt Coster"
 <matt.coster@...tec.com>, "Maarten Lankhorst"
 <maarten.lankhorst@...ux.intel.com>, "Maxime Ripard" <mripard@...nel.org>,
 "Thomas Zimmermann" <tzimmermann@...e.de>,
 <dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
 "Chun-Kuang Hu" <chunkuang.hu@...nel.org>, "Philipp Zabel"
 <p.zabel@...gutronix.de>, "Matthias Brugger" <matthias.bgg@...il.com>,
 "AngeloGioacchino Del Regno" <angelogioacchino.delregno@...labora.com>,
 <linux-mediatek@...ts.infradead.org>,
 <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>, "Mikko Perttunen"
 <mperttunen@...dia.com>, <linux-tegra@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] gpu: Convert to platform remove callback returning
 void

On Fri Apr 19, 2024 at 9:20 AM CEST, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Tue, Apr 09, 2024 at 07:02:47PM +0200, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> > with some patches sent earlier[1], this series converts all platform
> > drivers below drivers/gpu to not use struct platform_device::remove()
> > any more.
> > 
> > See commit 5c5a7680e67b ("platform: Provide a remove callback that
> > returns no value") for an extended explanation and the eventual goal.
> > 
> > All conversations are trivial, because the driver's .remove() callbacks
> > returned zero unconditionally.
> > 
> > There are no interdependencies between these patches. This is merge
> > window material.
>
> I wonder how this series will make it in. While I would prefer these
> patches to go in together (that I can consider this thread completed in
> one go), I think with how drm maintenace works, it's best if the patches
> are picked up by their individual maintainers. I guess that's:
>
>  - Frank Binns + Matt Coster for imagination
>
>  - Chun-Kuang Hu + Philipp Zabel for mediatek
>
>  - Thierry Reding + Mikko Perttunen for the host1x driver
>    (Note there is another patch for this driver set at
>     20240409165043.105137-2-u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de that is
>     relevant for the same quest.)
>
>  - Philipp Zabel for ipu-v3
>
> I plan to send a patch changing struct platform_driver::remove after the
> end of the merge window leading to 6.10-rc1 for inclusion in next via
> Greg's driver core. So please either care the patches land in 6.10-rc1
> or ack that I include them in the submission to Greg.

I think the latter would make more sense. I'll go ack those patches.

Thierry

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