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

[Sylvain Lemieux]

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@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  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:

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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@xxxxxxxxx>