[PATCH 4/4] PM / Domains: Let the ->attach_dev() callback return an error code

Geert Uytterhoeven geert at linux-m68k.org
Tue Oct 28 13:31:35 PDT 2014


Hi Ulf, Rafael,

On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 3:38 PM, Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson at linaro.org> wrote:
> Typically an ->attach_dev() callback would fetch some PM resourses.
>
> Those operations, like for example clk_get() may fail with different
> errors, including -EPROBE_DEFER. Instead of ignoring these errors and
> potentially only print an error message, let's propagate them to give
> callers the option to handle them.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson at linaro.org>

Given that several patch series using ->attach_dev() are already floating
around and will be in -next soon, what is the plan of getting this in?
Doing it ASAP (in v3.18-rc3)?
Delaying this to v3.19-rc2, which will require an atomic fixing of its users?
Any other option?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert, who's about to resubmit his pm-rmobile patches

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