Hi Geert,
testing 4.6-rc5 on a custom R-Car H3 board, I noticed that the Linux
console attached to SCIF2 no longer works (it works on 4.5). earlycon
works fine, though. Unlike Salvator-X, this H3 board does not use an
external SCIF clock and thus, scif_clk is not enabled in the board
device tree.
The first "bad" commit is
commit 3e5dd6f6e690048d0fd1c913397506648724474e
Author: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri Feb 26 16:54:31 2016 +0100
clk: Ignore disabled DT clock providers
As far as I can tell, the issue is that, with the above commit,
devm_clk_get() returns -EPROBE_DEFER for disabled clocks and the sh-sci
driver aborts probing with -EPROBE_DEFER even though scif_clk is
optional.
I can work around this issue with the patch below but I'm not sure
about the correct fix. Intuitively, I would expect devm_clk_get() to
return -ENOENT instead of -EPROBE_DEFER for disabled clocks but I don't
know whether this can be changed in the common clock framework without
risking issues in other places.
What do you think is the best solution to this issue?
Regards,
Jürg
diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/sh-sci.c b/drivers/tty/serial/sh-sci.c
index 8e966d9..0916159 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/serial/sh-sci.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/serial/sh-sci.c
@@ -2462,7 +2462,7 @@ static int sci_init_clocks(struct sci_port *sci_port, struct device *dev)
for (i = 0; i < SCI_NUM_CLKS; i++) {
clk = devm_clk_get(dev, clk_names[i]);
- if (PTR_ERR(clk) == -EPROBE_DEFER)
+ if (PTR_ERR(clk) == -EPROBE_DEFER && i != SCI_SCIF_CLK)
return -EPROBE_DEFER;
if (IS_ERR(clk) && i == SCI_FCK) {
