Re: [PATCH V2 15/63] clocksource/drivers/clksrc-dbx500: Convert init function to return error

[Linus Walleij]

On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 11:26 PM, Daniel Lezcano
<daniel.lezcano@xxxxxxxxxx> 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>

Acked-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>

Yours,
Linus Walleij