[PATCH V3] clocksource/drivers/arc: Convert init function to return error

[Vineet Gupta]

On Friday 17 June 2016 12:09 PM, 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>

Acked-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta at synopsys.com>

P.S. It would be nice to get cover letter for a series in addition to relevant
patches for full context, although per prev discussion on ARC timers, I kind of
knew what the idea was !