linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V2 36/63] clocksource/drivers/time-orion: Convert init function to return error

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Message-ID: <1466442534.1887.7.camel@localhost>
Date:	Mon, 20 Jun 2016 13:08:54 -0400
From:	Sylvain Lemieux <slemieux.tyco@...il.com>
To:	Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>
Cc:	tglx@...utronix.de, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Joachim Eastwood <manabian@...il.com>,
	Vladimir Zapolskiy <vz@...ia.com>,
	"moderated list:ARM/LPC18XX ARCHI..." 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 36/63] clocksource/drivers/time-orion: Convert init
 function to return error

On Thu, 2016-06-16 at 23:26 +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/time-lpc32xx.c | 12 +++++++-----
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/clocksource/time-lpc32xx.c b/drivers/clocksource/time-lpc32xx.c
> index daae61e..cb5b866 100644
> --- a/drivers/clocksource/time-lpc32xx.c
> +++ b/drivers/clocksource/time-lpc32xx.c
> @@ -288,16 +288,16 @@ err_clk_enable:

[...]

Hi Daniel,

please update the patch subject
(i.e. replace "time-orion" by "time-lpc32xx).

You can add my "Acked-by" to the V3 patch:
Acked-by: Sylvain Lemieux <slemieux.tyco@...il.com>