Re: [PATCH] clk: scpi: error when clock fails to register

Sudeep Holla
2017-06-28T15:04:29Z

On 28/06/17 14:53, Jerome Brunet wrote:
> Current implementation of scpi_clk_add just print a warning when clock
> fails to register but then keep going as if nothing happened. The
> provider is then registered with bogus data.
>
> This may latter lead to an Oops in __clk_create_clk when
> hlist_add_head(&clk->clks_node, &hw->core->clks) is called.
>

What's the path of this call ? I see one in devm_clk_hw_register
but that's one which failed.

Also one of the reason for keeping it continuing is, if firmware fails
on some non-critical clock, that's fine rather than punishing the entire
set of clocks and may even fail the boot.

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Regards,
Sudeep