[PATCH V3 1/8] CLKDEV: Add helper routines to allocate and add clkdevs for given struct clk *

[Viresh Kumar]

On 4/28/2012 3:22 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> I don't like that macro in there, I think it's unnecessary.  What about
> the below, which I've built here and it builds fine.

Even i didn't liked it too.

> As for va_start(ap, dev_fmt) when dev_fmt is NULL, that's perfectly fine
> - the requirement for va_start() is that it is called with the argument
> preceding the variable list of function arguments signified by '...'.
> That's still true when dev_fmt is NULL (hint: the compiler doesn't know
> at build time if dev_fmt was passed into this function as a NULL pointer
> or a real pointer, so it's going to generate code which works for non-NULL
> pointers.  If the pointer _is_ NULL, then we don't touch 'ap' other than
> its initialization and finalization via the standard functions.)

And i did implement it, because i didn't knew this. :)

> Plus, I've added commentry to these two new functions because there's
> an important point that needs to be conveyed (the fact that they do the
> error handling for clk_register()).

That good.

When are you pushing this to linux-next? I need it urgently so that SPEAr
patches can be pushed by Arnd.

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viresh