linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V3] clocksource/drivers/rockchip_timer: Convert init function to return error

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Date:	Sat, 18 Jun 2016 15:47:13 +0200
From:	Heiko Stübner <heiko@...ech.de>
To:	Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>
Cc:	tglx@...utronix.de, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-rockchip@...ts.infradead.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V3] clocksource/drivers/rockchip_timer: Convert init function to return error

Am Samstag, 18. Juni 2016, 14:54:07 schrieb Daniel Lezcano:
> 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@...aro.org>

looks good now :-)
Reviewed-by: Heiko Stuebner <heiko@...ech.de>

on a rk3399-evb
Tested-by: Heiko Stuebner <heiko@...ech.de>


Heiko