Re: [PATCH 5/5] drm/panel/panel-simple: Use the new allocation in place of devm_kzalloc()

[Luca Ceresoli]

On Tue, 25 Mar 2025 13:24:12 -0400
Anusha Srivatsa <asrivats@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Start using the new helper that does the refcounted
> allocations.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Anusha Srivatsa <asrivats@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/panel/panel-simple.c | 5 ++---
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/panel/panel-simple.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/panel/panel-simple.c
> index 6ba600f97aa4c8daae577823fcf17ef31b0eb46f..60b845fad4e1b378af52d34dfae0139c4625dc51 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/panel/panel-simple.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/panel/panel-simple.c
> @@ -579,7 +579,8 @@ static int panel_simple_probe(struct device *dev, const struct panel_desc *desc)
>  	u32 bus_flags;
>  	int err;
>  
> -	panel = devm_kzalloc(dev, sizeof(*panel), GFP_KERNEL);
> +	panel = devm_drm_panel_alloc(dev, struct panel_simple, base,
> +				     &panel_simple_funcs, desc->connector_type);
>  	if (!panel)
>  		return -ENOMEM;

devm_drm_panel_alloc() returns "Pointer to new panel, or ERR_PTR on
failure.", so you need IS_ERR() to check for an error condition:

  if (IS_ERR(panel))
    return PTR_ERR(Panel);

Otherwise looks good.

Luca

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