Re: [PATCH 01/15] ARM: etm: Don't require clock control

[John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>]

On 06/13/2012 01:33 AM, Paul Mundt wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 07:01:19PM -0700, John Stultz wrote:
>> diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/etm.c b/arch/arm/kernel/etm.c
>> index 36d20bd..bd295e8 100644
>> --- a/arch/arm/kernel/etm.c
>> +++ b/arch/arm/kernel/etm.c
>> @@ -362,13 +362,12 @@ static int __devinit etb_probe(struct amba_device *dev, const struct amba_id *id
>>   	if (ret)
>>   		goto out_unmap;
>>
>> +	/* Get optional clock. Currently used to select clock source on omap3 */
>>   	t->emu_clk = clk_get(&dev->dev, "emu_src_ck");
>> -	if (IS_ERR(t->emu_clk)) {
>> +	if (IS_ERR(t->emu_clk))
>>   		dev_dbg(&dev->dev, "Failed to obtain emu_src_ck.\n");
>> -		return -EFAULT;
>> -	}
>> -
>> -	clk_enable(t->emu_clk);
>> +	else
>> +		clk_enable(t->emu_clk);
>>
> Optionally you could just:
>
> 	if (IS_ERR(t->emu_clk))
> 		t->emu_clk = NULL;
>
> and use the clk API as you were, as it does handle NULL being passed in.
>
> In this case you don't have too many callsites to worry about, but it's
> reasonably convenient to be able to pass a NULL clk pointer around
> without constant special-casing when those start to balloon up.
>
Hrm. That's a good trick to remember for the future!

Although in this case I'm not sure it wins much (since the re-adding of 
the braces and the null assignment is still more code then using the 
else).  So unless this is a major style problem for you (and do let me 
know if it is), I'll probably leave it alone.

thanks
-john