[PATCH] arm/tegra: clk_get should not be fatal
Peter De Schrijver
pdeschrijver at nvidia.com
Tue Oct 25 13:00:38 EDT 2011
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 06:26:08PM +0200, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-10-25 at 19:15 +0300, pdeschrijver at nvidia.com wrote:
> > The timer and rtc-timer clocks aren't gated by default, so there is no reason
> > to crash the system if the dummy enable call failed.
> []
> > diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-tegra/timer.c b/arch/arm/mach-tegra/timer.c
> []
> > @@ -186,16 +186,20 @@ static void __init tegra_init_timer(void)
> > int ret;
> >
> > clk = clk_get_sys("timer", NULL);
> > - BUG_ON(IS_ERR(clk));
> > - clk_enable(clk);
> > + if (IS_ERR(clk))
> > + pr_warning("Unable to get timer clock");
> > + else
> > + clk_enable(clk);
> >
> > /*
> > * rtc registers are used by read_persistent_clock, keep the rtc clock
> > * enabled
> > */
> > clk = clk_get_sys("rtc-tegra", NULL);
> > - BUG_ON(IS_ERR(clk));
> > - clk_enable(clk);
> > + if (IS_ERR(clk))
> > + pr_warning("Unable to get rtc-tegra clock");
> > + else
> > + clk_enable(clk);
>
> Are these messages are really necessary?
I think it's still useful to have them as not having a clock fw is a strange
situation. It's not fatal though, but worth a warning I would say.
> Maybe just:
> if (!IS_ERR(clk))
> clk_enable(clk)
>
> If these are really necessary, please use
> pr_warn("Unable to get <foo>\n");
> pr_warn and with a terminating newline.
>
Is pr_warn any different then pr_warning? Point taken about the newline.
Cheers,
Peter.
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