[PATCH 6/7] rtc: sa1100: enable clk support
Haojian Zhuang
haojian.zhuang at gmail.com
Thu Feb 23 05:40:40 EST 2012
On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 6:34 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux
<linux at arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 05:04:55PM +0800, Haojian Zhuang wrote:
>> @@ -306,6 +308,13 @@ static int sa1100_rtc_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>> if (!info)
>> return -ENOMEM;
>>
>> + info->clk = clk_get(&pdev->dev, NULL);
>> + if (IS_ERR(info->clk)) {
>> + dev_err(&pdev->dev, "failed to find rtc clock source\n");
>> + ret = PTR_ERR(info->clk);
>> + goto err_clk;
>> + }
>> + clk_prepare_enable(info->clk);
>
> What about checking for errors from clk_prepare_enable() ?
>
> I assume that this is the clock required to access the peripheral, rather
> than the timekeeping clock? If so, does it need to be kept enabled all
> the time the driver is probed, or can the clock be prepared & enabled and
> disabled & unprepared when the device is opened/closed ?
>
Since some platform code is using RTC register in their suspend/resume
routine, I have to always enable the clock of rtc module.
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