[v4, 1/9] ACPI / PM: Let acpi_dev_pm_detach() return an error code
Dmitry Torokhov
dmitry.torokhov at gmail.com
Fri Sep 12 14:05:53 PDT 2014
Hi Ulf,
On Tue, Sep 09, 2014 at 01:36:02PM +0200, Ulf Hansson wrote:
> To give callers the option of acting on a errors while removing the
> pm_domain ops for the device in the ACPI PM domain, let
> acpi_dev_pm_detach() return an int to provide the error code.
So how would callers handle the errors? As far as I can see
acpi_dev_pm_detach() is called from ->remove() and ->shutdown() methods, where
there is no meaningful strategy to handle errors as you are past the point of
no return and you keep on tearing down the device.
Thanks.
--
Dmitry
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