Hi Geert,
On 17 July 2018 14:02, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 2:42 PM Phil Edworthy 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.
Good point!
Thanks
Phil
