[PATCH] USB: ohci-at91: add usb_clk for transition to common clk framework

Alan Stern stern at rowland.harvard.edu
Thu Aug 1 11:56:09 EDT 2013


On Thu, 1 Aug 2013, boris brezillon wrote:

> > What happens if uclk isn't found but it is needed?
> It will not fail but I guess the usb host won't work as the clock won't 
> be correctly
> configured.
> 
> I agree with you: this is not a good solution.
> 
> Another option is to keep the previous version of this patch and put 
> uclk handling
> in "#ifdef CONFIG_COMMON_CLK #endif" sections.
> 
> Would this be acceptable ?

Yes.  However, a more elegant approach is to protect the relevant 
statements with: if (defined(CONFIG_COMMON_CLK)).  This preprocessor 
evaluates this to a 0 or 1, so the compiler will not generate output 
for the protected source code if the symbol isn't defined.

Alan Stern




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