Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 25 Apr 2017 17:31:37 +0100 | From | Russell King - ARM Linux <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Fix returns of some CLK API calls, if !CONFIG_HAVE_CLOCK |
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On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 02:30:07PM +0200, Thomas Bogendoerfer wrote: > If CONFIG_HAVE_CLOCK is not set, return values of clk_get(), > devm_clk_get(), devm_get_clk_from_child(), clk_get_parent() > and clk_get_sys() are wrong. According to spec these functions > should either return a pointer to a struct clk or a valid IS_ERR > condition. NULL is neither, so returning ERR_PTR(-ENODEV) makes > more sense.
That's wrong. When the clk API is disabled, the expected behaviour is that drivers will not fail. Returning ERR_PTR(-ENODEV) will cause them to fail, so will break platforms.
NAK.
> Without this change serial console on SNI RM400 machines (MIPS arch) > is broken, because sccnxp driver doesn't get a valid clock rate.
So the driver needs to depend on HAVE_CLOCK.
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