linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V3] clocksource/drivers/mps2-timer: Convert init function to return error

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Message-ID: <20160620094230.GQ9711@e106497-lin.cambridge.arm.com>
Date:	Mon, 20 Jun 2016 10:42:30 +0100
From:	liviu.dudau@....com
To:	Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>
Cc:	tglx@...utronix.de, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V3] clocksource/drivers/mps2-timer: Convert init function
 to return error

On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 11:26:59AM +0200, 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@...aro.org>
> ---
>  drivers/clocksource/mps2-timer.c | 10 ++++++----
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/clocksource/mps2-timer.c b/drivers/clocksource/mps2-timer.c
> index 3d33a5e..c303fa9 100644
> --- a/drivers/clocksource/mps2-timer.c
> +++ b/drivers/clocksource/mps2-timer.c
> @@ -250,7 +250,7 @@ out:
>  	return ret;
>  }
>  
> -static void __init mps2_timer_init(struct device_node *np)
> +static int __init mps2_timer_init(struct device_node *np)
>  {
>  	static int has_clocksource, has_clockevent;
>  	int ret;
> @@ -259,7 +259,7 @@ static void __init mps2_timer_init(struct device_node *np)
>  		ret = mps2_clocksource_init(np);
>  		if (!ret) {
>  			has_clocksource = 1;
> -			return;
> +			return 0;
>  		}
>  	}
>  
> @@ -267,9 +267,11 @@ static void __init mps2_timer_init(struct device_node *np)
>  		ret = mps2_clockevent_init(np);
>  		if (!ret) {
>  			has_clockevent = 1;
> -			return;
> +			return 0;
>  		}
>  	}
> +
> +	return 0;
>  }
>  
> -CLOCKSOURCE_OF_DECLARE(mps2_timer, "arm,mps2-timer", mps2_timer_init);
> +CLOCKSOURCE_OF_DECLARE_RET(mps2_timer, "arm,mps2-timer", mps2_timer_init);
> -- 
> 1.9.1
> 

Thanks!

Acked-by: Liviu Dudau <Liviu.Dudau@....com>


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