Re: [PATCH] clk: mux: let clk_mux_val_to_index return U8_MAX in the error case

[Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>]

On 13.04.2023 22:30, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> Quoting Heiner Kallweit (2023-04-13 12:27:27)
>> On 13.04.2023 21:10, Stephen Boyd wrote:
>>> Quoting Heiner Kallweit (2023-04-11 23:19:04)
>>>> Currently this function may return a negative errno, but almost no
>>>> user checks for the error case. Only imx_clk_gpr_mux_get_parent()
>>>> does, but mentions in a comment that they'd prefer a dummy value.
>>>> Other users cast the negative errno to u8 instead, what may result
>>>> in unwanted results.
>>>> Let's deal with this by returning u8 and U8_MAX in the error case.
>>>> Then clk_core_get_parent_by_index() can detect that the index is
>>>> out of range.
>>>
>>> Is this causing problems for you?
>>
>> I'm not directly impacted. I came across this when working on a driver
>> with the following scenario:
>>
>> I have a clock muxer where I want to exclude one of the mux parents
>> by using clk_mux.table. If by chance the boot loader used this mux
>> parent, then clk_mux_val_to_index() would return an errno.
>> Also within clk core the return value isn't checked in
>> clk_mux_get_parent().
>>
> 
> Ok. I'd rather go with a total rewrite of the get_parent clk_op[1] and fix
> this at the same time.
> 
> [1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/clk/linux.git/log/?h=clk-parent-rewrite

This would be even better. Thanks.