Re: [PATCH v2] i2c: efm32: Prevent potential division by zero

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2016-04-14 19:40 GMT+08:00 Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> Hello Axel,
>
> On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 05:49:35PM +0800, Axel Lin wrote:
>> Make sure we don't OOPS in case clock-frequency is set to 0 in a DT. The
>> variable set here is later used as a divisor.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Axel Lin <axel.lin@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> If my understand is correct, you prefer to make it return error rather
>> than using default frequency setting if DT setting is wrong.
>
> No, I'd say it doesn't matter that the driver crashes if something
> invalid is specified in the device tree. This is not a driver bug, but a
> dt bug. So if it happens, fix the device tree, no need to modify the
> driver.

I know that such case is a DT bug.
But the intention of this patch is to avoid oops rather than fix dt.
Make probe return error is enough to inform developer fixing dt.
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