From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: s.hauer@pengutronix.de (Sascha Hauer)
Date: Wed, 2 May 2012 12:11:32 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] clk: Use a separate struct for holding init data.
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On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 11:02:25AM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> > 
> > There is a mux->hw.init = &init missing here.
> 
> What happens to mux->hw.init long term?  Because once this function
> returns, that pointer will no longer be valid.

It's not used after clk_register, so everything should be fine.

> It would be a good
> idea to NULL it out in clk_register() once its done with, to ensure
> that no one comes up with the idea of using it later.

Enforcing this is a good idea.

Sascha

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