From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: sebastian.hesselbarth@gmail.com (Sebastian Hesselbarth)
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 20:41:40 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] ARM: kirkwood: fix a not initialized variable in
 the sound subsystem
In-Reply-To: <20130326190513.1671a3be@armhf>
References: <20130326190513.1671a3be@armhf>
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To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
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On 03/26/2013 07:05 PM, Jean-Francois Moine wrote:
> In the function kirkwood_set_rate, in case of a non dco supported rate
> and no external clock, the clock source was set to an undefined value.
> This patch just displays a message without changing the clock source.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jean-Francois Moine<moinejf@free.fr>
> ---
>   sound/soc/kirkwood/kirkwood-i2s.c |    3 +++
>   1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/sound/soc/kirkwood/kirkwood-i2s.c b/sound/soc/kirkwood/kirkwood-i2s.c
> index c74c890..afca1ec 100644
> --- a/sound/soc/kirkwood/kirkwood-i2s.c
> +++ b/sound/soc/kirkwood/kirkwood-i2s.c
> @@ -118,6 +118,9 @@ static void kirkwood_set_rate(struct snd_soc_dai *dai,
>   		clk_set_rate(priv->extclk, 256 * rate);
>
>   		clks_ctrl = KIRKWOOD_MCLK_SOURCE_EXTCLK;
> +	} else {
> +		dev_err(dai->dev, "%s: no clock\n", __func__);
> +		return;
>   	}
>   	writel(clks_ctrl, priv->io + KIRKWOOD_CLOCKS_CTRL);
>   }

NACK.

Having no clock at all should be catched during _probe. Moreover,
not having the internal clock enabled will lead to system hang due to
clock gating. You should rather pass an optional (DT-only) extclk phandle
on the second clocks property.

Sebastian

P.S. as this is alsa stuff you should have some alsa maintainers on your
Cc list. Please run ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl on your patches next time.
It will give you a list of people you have to to Cc.