[PATCH v7 01/26] PM / Domains: Don't treat zero found compatible idle states as an error

[Lina Iyer]

On Thu, Apr 12 2018 at 05:14 -0600, Ulf Hansson wrote:
>Instead of returning -EINVAL from of_genpd_parse_idle_states() in case none
>compatible states was found, let's return 0 to indicate success. Assign
>also the out-parameter *states to NULL and *n to 0, to indicate to the
>caller that zero states have been found/allocated.
>
>This enables the caller of of_genpd_parse_idle_states() to easier act on
>the returned error code.
>
>Cc: Lina Iyer <ilina at codeaurora.org>
>Signed-off-by: Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson at linaro.org>

Reviewed-by: Lina Iyer <ilina at codeaurora.org>

>---
> drivers/base/power/domain.c | 14 ++++++++++----
> 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
>diff --git a/drivers/base/power/domain.c b/drivers/base/power/domain.c
>index 1ea0e25..c2ef944 100644
>--- a/drivers/base/power/domain.c
>+++ b/drivers/base/power/domain.c
>@@ -2331,8 +2331,8 @@ static int genpd_iterate_idle_states(struct device_node *dn,
>  *
>  * Returns the device states parsed from the OF node. The memory for the states
>  * is allocated by this function and is the responsibility of the caller to
>- * free the memory after use. If no domain idle states is found it returns
>- * -EINVAL and in case of errors, a negative error code.
>+ * free the memory after use. If any or zero compatible domain idle states is
>+ * found it returns 0 and in case of errors, a negative error code is returned.
>  */
> int of_genpd_parse_idle_states(struct device_node *dn,
> 			struct genpd_power_state **states, int *n)
>@@ -2341,8 +2341,14 @@ int of_genpd_parse_idle_states(struct device_node *dn,
> 	int ret;
>
> 	ret = genpd_iterate_idle_states(dn, NULL);
>-	if (ret <= 0)
>-		return ret < 0 ? ret : -EINVAL;
>+	if (ret < 0)
>+		return ret;
>+
>+	if (!ret) {
>+		*states = NULL;
>+		*n = 0;
>+		return 0;
>+	}
>
> 	st = kcalloc(ret, sizeof(*st), GFP_KERNEL);
> 	if (!st)
>--
>2.7.4
>