Re: [alsa-devel] [RFC PATCH] ASoC: wm8731: let codec to manage clock by itself

[Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>]

On Tue, Feb 03, 2015 at 05:53:48PM +0100, Lars-Peter Clausen wrote:
> On 02/03/2015 01:44 PM, Mark Brown wrote:
> >On Tue, Feb 03, 2015 at 08:54:57AM +0100, Manuel Lauss wrote:
> >
> >>+    wm8731->mclk = devm_clk_get(&spi->dev, "mclk");
> >>+    if (IS_ERR(wm8731->mclk)) {
> >>+        wm8731->mclk = NULL;
> >>+        dev_warn(&spi->dev, "assuming static MCLK\n");
> >>+    }
> >
> >This is broken for both deferred probe and in the case where the clock
> >API genuinely returns a NULL clock.  Other than that it's the kind of
> >thing that we've done for some other drivers, though it's not good to
> >have to do this.  Check them for correct behaviour.
> 
> Ideally we'd introduce a {devm_}clk_get_optional(), with the same semantics
> as gpiod_get_optional(), which handles the finer details of differentiating
> between clock specified, but not yet probed, clock specified, but
> incorrectly and no clock specified, so this doesn't have to be done over and
> over by each driver.

No, we don't need to.  It clk_get() already knows this distinction, and
it appropriately returns -ENOENT vs -EPROBE_DEFER according to whether
there's a clock specified in DT or not.

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