[PATCH V2 36/63] clocksource/drivers/time-orion: Convert init function to return error
Sylvain Lemieux
slemieux.tyco at gmail.com
Mon Jun 20 10:08:54 PDT 2016
On Thu, 2016-06-16 at 23:26 +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 <daniel.lezcano at linaro.org>
> ---
> drivers/clocksource/time-lpc32xx.c | 12 +++++++-----
> 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/clocksource/time-lpc32xx.c b/drivers/clocksource/time-lpc32xx.c
> index daae61e..cb5b866 100644
> --- a/drivers/clocksource/time-lpc32xx.c
> +++ b/drivers/clocksource/time-lpc32xx.c
> @@ -288,16 +288,16 @@ err_clk_enable:
[...]
Hi Daniel,
please update the patch subject
(i.e. replace "time-orion" by "time-lpc32xx).
You can add my "Acked-by" to the V3 patch:
Acked-by: Sylvain Lemieux <slemieux.tyco at gmail.com>
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