Re: [PATCH V2 18/63] clocksource/drivers/arm_global_timer: Convert init function to return error

From: Maxime Coquelin
Date: Mon Jun 20 2016 - 07:33:44 EST




On 06/16/2016 11:26 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@xxxxxxxxxx>
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drivers/clocksource/arm_global_timer.c | 28 ++++++++++++++++++----------
1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)



Acked-by: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@xxxxxx>

Thanks!
Maxime