On Friday 17 June 2016 12:09 PM, 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 at linaro.org> Acked-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta at synopsys.com> P.S. It would be nice to get cover letter for a series in addition to relevant patches for full context, although per prev discussion on ARC timers, I kind of knew what the idea was !