Re: [PATCH 2/4] pwm: omap-dmtimer: add sanity checking for load and match values

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On Fri, 29 Jan 2016 23:26:52 -0500
"David Rivshin (Allworx)" <drivshin.allworx@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: David Rivshin <drivshin@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Add sanity checking to ensure that we do not program load or match
> values that are out of range if a user requests period or duty_cycle
> values which are not achievable. The match value cannot be less than
> the load value (but can be equal), and neither can be 0xffffffff.
> This means that there must be at least one fclk cycle between load
> and match, and another between match and overflow.
> 
> Fixes: 6604c6556db9 ("pwm: Add PWM driver for OMAP using dual-mode
> timers") Signed-off-by: David Rivshin <drivshin@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
 [...]
> @@ -149,6 +149,24 @@ static int pwm_omap_dmtimer_config(struct pwm_chip *chip, 
> period_cycles = pwm_omap_dmtimer_get_clock_cycles(clk_rate, period_ns); 
> duty_cycles = pwm_omap_dmtimer_get_clock_cycles(clk_rate, duty_ns); 
>
> +	if (period_cycles < 2) {
> +		dev_info(chip->dev,
> +			"period %dns is too short for clock rate %luHz\n",
> +			period_ns, clk_rate);
> +		goto err_einval;
> +	}
 [...]

I had some second thoughts on this over the weekend:
1) Perhaps the return should be -ERANGE instead of -EINVAL for this case?
2) Is dev_info() too severe for this? Perhaps dev_dbg() would be better?
Any preferences?
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