From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Boyd Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2016 00:33:28 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] clk: let clk_disable() return immediately if clk is NULL or error Message-Id: <20160408003328.GA14441@codeaurora.org> List-Id: References: <1459821083-28116-1-git-send-email-yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> In-Reply-To: <1459821083-28116-1-git-send-email-yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org On 04/05, Masahiro Yamada wrote: > The clk_disable() in the common clock framework (drivers/clk/clk.c) > returns immediately if a given clk is NULL or an error pointer. It > allows clock consumers to call clk_disable() without IS_ERR_OR_NULL > checking if drivers are only used with the common clock framework. > > Unfortunately, NULL/error checking is missing from some of non-common > clk_disable() implementations. This prevents us from completely > dropping NULL/error checking from callers. Let's make it tree-wide > consistent by adding IS_ERR_OR_NULL(clk) to all callees. > > Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada > Acked-by: Greg Ungerer > Acked-by: Wan Zongshun > --- > > Stephen, > > This patch has been unapplied for a long time. > > Please let me know if there is something wrong with this patch. > I'm mostly confused why we wouldn't want to encourage people to call clk_disable or unprepare on a clk that's an error pointer. Typically an error pointer should be dealt with, instead of silently ignored, so why wasn't it dealt with by passing it up the probe() path? -- Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a member of Code Aurora Forum, a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project