linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/4] drm/mediatek: Convert to platform remove callback returning void

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Date: Thu, 16 May 2024 02:54:40 +0000
From: CK Hu (胡俊光) <ck.hu@...iatek.com>
To: "daniel@...ll.ch" <daniel@...ll.ch>, "airlied@...il.com"
	<airlied@...il.com>, "u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de"
	<u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] drm/mediatek: Convert to platform remove callback
 returning void

Hi, Uwe:

On Tue, 2024-04-09 at 19:02 +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 ignored (apart
> from emitting a warning) 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. Eventually after all drivers
> are converted, .remove_new() will be renamed to .remove().
> 
> Trivially convert this driver from always returning zero in the remove
> callback to the void returning variant.

Reviewed-by: CK Hu <ck.hu@...iatek.com>

> 
> Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>
> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/mediatek/mtk_padding.c | 5 ++---
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/mediatek/mtk_padding.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/mediatek/mtk_padding.c
> index 0d6451c149b6..9f92b720aaae 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/mediatek/mtk_padding.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/mediatek/mtk_padding.c
> @@ -137,10 +137,9 @@ static int mtk_padding_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>  return 0;
>  }
>  
> -static int mtk_padding_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
> +static void mtk_padding_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
>  {
>  component_del(&pdev->dev, &mtk_padding_component_ops);
> -return 0;
>  }
>  
>  static const struct of_device_id mtk_padding_driver_dt_match[] = {
> @@ -151,7 +150,7 @@ MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(of, mtk_padding_driver_dt_match);
>  
>  struct platform_driver mtk_padding_driver = {
>  .probe= mtk_padding_probe,
> -.remove= mtk_padding_remove,
> +.remove_new= mtk_padding_remove,
>  .driver= {
>  .name= "mediatek-disp-padding",
>  .owner= THIS_MODULE,
> -- 
> 2.43.0
>