linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 08/11] clk: sunxi: improve error reporting for the mux clock

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Date:	Tue, 2 Feb 2016 18:05:49 +0000
From:	Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@....com>
To:	Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@...e-electrons.com>
Cc:	Chen-Yu Tsai <wens@...e.org>, linux-sunxi@...glegroups.com,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Emilio López <emilio@...pez.com.ar>,
	Michael Turquette <mturquette@...libre.com>,
	Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...eaurora.org>, linux-clk@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/11] clk: sunxi: improve error reporting for the mux
 clock

Salut,

On 02/02/16 18:02, Maxime Ripard wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 01, 2016 at 05:39:27PM +0000, Andre Przywara wrote:
>> clk_register_mux returns a pointer wrapped error value in case of
>> failure, so a simple NULL check is not sufficient to catch errors.
>> Fix that and elaborate on the failure reason on the way. The whole
>> function does not return any error value, so silently failing may
>> leave users scratching their heads because the kernel does not
>> provide any clues on what's wrong.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@....com>
> 
> Applied, thanks.
> 
> Any chance you do that for the other functions? :)

Sure, that was actually a test balloon ;-)

Cheers,
Andre