Re: [PATCH v10 25/27] ARM: davinci: add device tree support to timer

From: David Lechner <david@lechnology.com>
To: Sekhar Nori <nsekhar@ti.com>,
	linux-clk@vger.kernel.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: Michael Turquette <mturquette@baylibre.com>,
	Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>,
	Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>,
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
	Kevin Hilman <khilman@kernel.org>,
	Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@baylibre.com>,
	Adam Ford <aford173@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v10 25/27] ARM: davinci: add device tree support to timer
Date: Fri, 18 May 2018 10:35:54 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9bc3fb8f-ca03-9cfd-1e9d-51f8c9347da7@lechnology.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c7064bee-d385-4496-c19e-1b72853b01f1@ti.com>

On 05/18/2018 01:05 AM, Sekhar Nori wrote:
> On Thursday 17 May 2018 08:39 PM, David Lechner wrote:
>> On 05/17/2018 09:35 AM, Sekhar Nori wrote:
>>> Hi David,
>>>
>>> On Wednesday 09 May 2018 10:56 PM, David Lechner wrote:
>>>> This adds device tree support to the davinci timer so that when clocks
>>>> are moved to device tree, the timer will still work.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: David Lechner <david@lechnology.com>
>>>> ---
>>>
>>>> +static int __init of_davinci_timer_init(struct device_node *np)
>>>> +{
>>>> +    struct clk *clk;
>>>> +
>>>> +    clk = of_clk_get(np, 0);
>>>> +    if (IS_ERR(clk)) {
>>>> +        struct of_phandle_args clkspec;
>>>> +
>>>> +        /*
>>>> +         * Fall back to using ref_clk if the actual clock is not
>>>> +         * available. There will be problems later if the real clock
>>>> +         * source is disabled.
>>>> +         */
>>>> +
>>>> +        pr_warn("%s: falling back to ref_clk\n", __func__);
>>>> +
>>>> +        clkspec.np = of_find_node_by_name(NULL, "ref_clk");
>>>> +        if (IS_ERR(clkspec.np)) {
>>>> +            pr_err("%s: No clock available for timer!\n", __func__);
>>>> +            return PTR_ERR(clkspec.np);
>>>> +        }
>>>> +        clk = of_clk_get_from_provider(&clkspec);
>>>> +        of_node_put(clkspec.np);
>>>> +    }
>>>
>>> Do we need this error path now?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Sekhar
>>>
>>
>> No, not really.
> 
> Then lets just print an error and return the error number.
> 

OK. FYI, timer_probe() prints the error if we return and error, so
I will just return the error.