[PATCH 00/53] drm: Convert to platform remove callback returning void

[Laurent Pinchart]

Hi Doug,

On Thu, Jun 08, 2023 at 09:08:15AM -0700, Doug Anderson wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 1, 2023 at 8:40 AM Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> > On Sun, May 07, 2023 at 06:25:23PM +0200, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> > > this patch series adapts the platform drivers below drivers/gpu/drm
> > > to use the .remove_new() callback. Compared to the traditional .remove()
> > > callback .remove_new() returns no value. This is a good thing because
> > > the driver core doesn't (and cannot) cope for errors during remove. The
> > > only effect of a non-zero return value in .remove() is that the driver
> > > core emits a warning. The device is removed anyhow and an early return
> > > from .remove() usually yields a resource leak.
> > >
> > > By changing the remove callback to return void driver authors cannot
> > > reasonably (but wrongly) assume any more that there happens some kind of
> > > cleanup later.
> >
> > I wonder if someone would volunteer to add the whole series to
> > drm-misc-next?!
> 
> It looks as if Neil applied quite a few of them already, so I looked
> at what was left...
> 
> I'm a little hesitant to just apply the whole kit-and-caboodle to
> drm-misc-next since there are specific DRM trees for a bunch of them
> and it would be better if they landed there. ...so I went through all
> the patches that still applied to drm-misc-next, then used
> 'scripts/get_maintainer.pl --scm' to check if they were maintained
> through drm-misc. That still left quite a few patches. I've applied
> those ones and pushed to drm-misc-next:
> 
> 71722685cd17 drm/xlnx/zynqmp_dpsub: Convert to platform remove
> callback returning void
> 1ed54a19f3b3 drm/vc4: Convert to platform remove callback returning void
> b957812839f8 drm/v3d: Convert to platform remove callback returning void
> e2fd3192e267 drm/tve200: Convert to platform remove callback returning void
> 84e6da7ad553 drm/tiny: Convert to platform remove callback returning void
> 34cdd1f691ad drm/tidss: Convert to platform remove callback returning void
> d665e3c9d37a drm/sun4i: Convert to platform remove callback returning void
> 0c259ab19146 drm/stm: Convert to platform remove callback returning void
> 9a865e45884a drm/sti: Convert to platform remove callback returning void
> 3c855610840e drm/rockchip: Convert to platform remove callback returning void
> e41977a83b71 drm/panfrost: Convert to platform remove callback returning void
> cef3776d0b5a drm/panel: Convert to platform remove callback returning void
> bd296a594e87 drm/mxsfb: Convert to platform remove callback returning void
> 38ca2d93d323 drm/meson: Convert to platform remove callback returning void
> fd1457d84bae drm/mcde: Convert to platform remove callback returning void
> 41a56a18615c drm/logicvc: Convert to platform remove callback returning void
> 980ec6444372 drm/lima: Convert to platform remove callback returning void
> 82a2c0cc1a22 drm/hisilicon: Convert to platform remove callback returning void
> c3b28b29ac0a drm/fsl-dcu: Convert to platform remove callback returning void
> a118fc6e71f9 drm/atmel-hlcdc: Convert to platform remove callback returning void
> 9a32dd324c46 drm/aspeed: Convert to platform remove callback returning void
> 2c7d291c498c drm/arm/malidp: Convert to platform remove callback returning void
> a920028df679 drm/arm/hdlcd: Convert to platform remove callback returning void
> 1bf3d76a7d15 drm/komeda: Convert to platform remove callback returning void
> 
> The following ones appeared to apply to the top of drm-misc-next, but
> I didn't apply them since get_maintainer didn't say they were part of
> drm-misc-next:
> 
> drm/tiny: Convert to platform remove callback returning void
> drm/tilcdc: Convert to platform remove callback returning void
> drm/sprd: Convert to platform remove callback returning void
> drm/shmobile: Convert to platform remove callback returning void
> drm/rcar-du: Convert to platform remove callback returning void

If you don't mind, could you take the rcar-du patch through drm-misc too
? I don't plan to send another pull request for v6.5.

> drm/omap: Convert to platform remove callback returning void

Tomi, should drm/omap moved to being maintained through drm-misc ?

> drm/nouveau: Convert to platform remove callback returning void
> drm/mediatek: Convert to platform remove callback returning void
> drm/kmb: Convert to platform remove callback returning void
> drm/ingenic: Convert to platform remove callback returning void
> drm/imx/ipuv3: Convert to platform remove callback returning void
> drm/imx/dcss: Convert to platform remove callback returning void
> drm/etnaviv: Convert to platform remove callback returning void
> drm/armada: Convert to platform remove callback returning void

-- 
Regards,

Laurent Pinchart