[PATCH 2/4] hvc_dcc: don't ignore errors during initialization

[Stephen Boyd]

On 06/30/2015 02:23 PM, Timur Tabi wrote:
> hvc_instantiate() and hvc_alloc() return errors if they fail, so don't
> ignore them.
>
> Signed-off-by: Timur Tabi <timur at codeaurora.org>
> ---
>  drivers/tty/hvc/hvc_dcc.c | 17 +++++++++++++----
>  1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/tty/hvc/hvc_dcc.c b/drivers/tty/hvc/hvc_dcc.c
> index 33657dc..f8b8cf2 100644
> --- a/drivers/tty/hvc/hvc_dcc.c
> +++ b/drivers/tty/hvc/hvc_dcc.c
> @@ -225,20 +225,29 @@ static const struct hv_ops hvc_dcc_get_put_ops = {
>  
>  static int __init hvc_dcc_console_init(void)
>  {
> +	int ret;
> +
> +	/* This always runs on boot core */
>  	if (!hvc_dcc_check())
>  		return -ENODEV;
>  
> -	hvc_instantiate(0, 0, &hvc_dcc_get_put_ops);
> -	return 0;
> +	/* Returns -1 if error */
> +	ret = hvc_instantiate(0, 0, &hvc_dcc_get_put_ops);
> +
> +	return ret < 0 ? -ENODEV : 0;

Why not just return the value that hvc_instantiate returns? And maybe we
should change those -1 in hvc_instantiate into -EPERM?

>  }
>  console_initcall(hvc_dcc_console_init);
>  
>  static int __init hvc_dcc_init(void)
>  {
> +	struct hvc_struct *p;
> +
> +	/* This can run on any core */
>  	if (!hvc_dcc_check())
>  		return -ENODEV;
>  
> -	hvc_alloc(0, 0, &hvc_dcc_get_put_ops, 128);
> -	return 0;
> +	p = hvc_alloc(0, 0, &hvc_dcc_get_put_ops, 128);
> +
> +	return IS_ERR(p) ? PTR_ERR(p) : 0;

return PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO()?

>  }
>  device_initcall(hvc_dcc_init);


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