[GIT PULL] SPEAr clk updates for v-3.5
Shawn Guo
shawn.guo at linaro.org
Thu May 10 11:37:47 EDT 2012
On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 09:59:39AM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 12:14:39AM -0700, Olof Johansson wrote:
> > Russell has published a clkdev branch that you pull instead of
> > applying his patch manually, that way there will be no surprises with
> > respect to conflicts, etc:
> >
> > git://ftp.arm.linux.org.uk/~rmk/linux-next.git clkdev
> >
> > It is also in arm-soc as depends/rmk/clkdev now.
>
> I'll mention that I'm considering a patch on top of this to add __must_check
> to the return values for these clkdev clk registration functions. I've
> noticed that many users aren't checking that, so there's no real way to
> be sure that these things are being created.
>
I have to admit I'm one of such users. Does that mean we have to
revise the platform porting again? So ...
> The alternative is we make these functions void and/or add pr_err() inside
> them to report the failures.
>
... I'd vote for this alternative. (Sorry for users that are checking
the return right now. Any?)
--
Regards,
Shawn
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