commit 07905298 upstream.

The return type "unsigned int" was used by the get_formation_index function
despite of the aspect that it will eventually return a negative	error code.
So, change to signed int and get index by reference in the parameters.

Done with the help of Coccinelle.

[Fix the missing braces suggested by Julia Lawall -- tiwai]
Signed-off-by: Lucas Tanure <tanure@linux.com>
Reviewed-by: Takashi Sakamoto <o-takashi@sakamocchi.jp>
Tested-by: Takashi Sakamoto <o-takashi@sakamocchi.jp>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@canonical.com>