Re: [PATCH 2/2] i2c: designware: Add support for a bus clock

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Hi Phil,

On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 2:42 PM Phil Edworthy <phil.edworthy@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 17 July 2018 13:24, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > On Tue, 2018-07-17 at 14:07 +0200, Simon Horman wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 09:59:13AM +0100, Phil Edworthy wrote:
> > > > The Synopsys I2C Controller has a bus clock, but typically SoCs hide
> > > > this away.
> > > > However, on some SoCs you need to explicity enable the bus clock in
> > > > order to access the registers.
> > > > Therefore, enable an optional bus clock specified by DT.
> >
> > > > +         /* Optional bus clock */
> > > > +         if (!IS_ERR(dev->busclk)) {
> > >
> > > I suspect that error values stored in dev->busclk,  other than
> > > -ENOENT, should be treated as errors.
> IS_ERR catches all errors and is the correct way to check the value
> returned by devm_clk_get.

What if it returns -EPROBE_DEFER, which means the clock is referenced,
and thus not optional, but not yet ready?
For optional clocks, all errors but -ENOENT should be propagated up.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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