On 27-06-19, 23:02, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
> It looks like after the changes in the patch the only reason for
> returning (struct thermal_cooling_device *) from
> cpufreq_cooling_register() is error checking, but it would be much
> more straightforward to return int for this purpose.
> 
> Moreover, that would prevent the callers of it from doing incorrect
> things with the returned pointers (like using it to unregister the
> cooling device).
> 
> Replace the returned value an integer instead of a pointer to a
> thermal cooling device structure.
> 
> Suggested-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <[email protected]>
> ---
>  drivers/thermal/cpu_cooling.c                 | 63 +++++++++----------
>  drivers/thermal/imx_thermal.c                 |  6 +-
>  .../ti-soc-thermal/ti-thermal-common.c        |  7 +--
>  include/linux/cpu_cooling.h                   | 16 ++---
>  4 files changed, 40 insertions(+), 52 deletions(-)

Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <[email protected]>

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viresh

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