From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: soren.brinkmann@xilinx.com (=?utf-8?B?U8O2cmVu?= Brinkmann) Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2016 14:43:46 -0700 Subject: [PATCH V2 07/63] clocksource/drivers/cadence_ttc: Convert init function to return error In-Reply-To: <1466112442-31105-8-git-send-email-daniel.lezcano@linaro.org> References: <1466112442-31105-1-git-send-email-daniel.lezcano@linaro.org> <1466112442-31105-8-git-send-email-daniel.lezcano@linaro.org> Message-ID: <20160616214346.GN19175@xsjsorenbubuntu> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Thu, 2016-06-16 at 23:26:26 +0200, Daniel Lezcano wrote: > The init functions do not return any error. They behave as the following: > > - panic, thus leading to a kernel crash while another timer may work and > make the system boot up correctly > > or > > - print an error and let the caller unaware if the state of the system > > Change that by converting the init functions to return an error conforming > to the CLOCKSOURCE_OF_RET prototype. > > Proper error handling (rollback, errno value) will be changed later case > by case, thus this change just return back an error or success in the init > function. > > Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano Acked-by: S?ren Brinkmann S?ren