From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: maxime.coquelin@st.com (Maxime Coquelin) Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2016 13:33:46 +0200 Subject: [PATCH V2 08/63] clocksource/drivers/st_lpc: Convert init function to return error In-Reply-To: <1466112442-31105-9-git-send-email-daniel.lezcano@linaro.org> References: <1466112442-31105-1-git-send-email-daniel.lezcano@linaro.org> <1466112442-31105-9-git-send-email-daniel.lezcano@linaro.org> Message-ID: <5767D49A.4090507@st.com> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On 06/16/2016 11:26 PM, 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 > --- > drivers/clocksource/clksrc_st_lpc.c | 22 +++++++++++++--------- > 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) > Acked-by: Maxime Coquelin Thanks! Maxime