* [RESEND PATCH] of: Documentation: Correct return value from of_overlay_fdt_apply
@ 2019-10-24 3:02 Chris Packham
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From: Chris Packham @ 2019-10-24 3:02 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: frowand.list, robh+dt, mark.rutland, corbet
Cc: devicetree, linux-doc, linux-kernel, Chris Packham, Pantelis Antoniou
The return from of_overlay_fdt_apply() just indicates success or fail.
The cookie is returned via reference.
Signed-off-by: Chris Packham <chris.packham@alliedtelesis.co.nz>
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Just going over some old branches and saw this hadn't been picked up. I wonder
if it got caught between maintainers.
Review from Frank:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/9bb707be-9cb3-dffc-303f-ee7025090ba9@gmail.com/
Documentation/devicetree/overlay-notes.txt | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/overlay-notes.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/overlay-notes.txt
index 725fb8d255c1..62f2003d6205 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/overlay-notes.txt
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/overlay-notes.txt
@@ -88,7 +88,8 @@ Overlay in-kernel API
The API is quite easy to use.
1. Call of_overlay_fdt_apply() to create and apply an overlay changeset. The
-return value is an error or a cookie identifying this overlay.
+return indicates success or failure. A a cookie identifying this overlay is
+returned via reference on success.
2. Call of_overlay_remove() to remove and cleanup the overlay changeset
previously created via the call to of_overlay_fdt_apply(). Removal of an
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2.23.0
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