Re: [PATCH 5/6] Clocklib: Use correct clock for IrDA on pxa

From: Russell King
Date: Mon Apr 07 2008 - 19:05:50 EST


On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 04:00:29PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Apr 2008 17:24:02 +0400
> Dmitry Baryshkov <dbaryshkov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Signed-off-by: Dmitry Baryshkov <dbaryshkov@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > drivers/net/irda/pxaficp_ir.c | 2 +-
> > 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/net/irda/pxaficp_ir.c b/drivers/net/irda/pxaficp_ir.c
> > index 8c09344..36d2ec0 100644
> > --- a/drivers/net/irda/pxaficp_ir.c
> > +++ b/drivers/net/irda/pxaficp_ir.c
> > @@ -814,7 +814,7 @@ static int pxa_irda_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> > si->dev = &pdev->dev;
> > si->pdata = pdev->dev.platform_data;
> >
> > - si->sir_clk = clk_get(&pdev->dev, "UARTCLK");
> > + si->sir_clk = clk_get(&pdev->dev, "SIRCLK");
> > si->fir_clk = clk_get(&pdev->dev, "FICPCLK");
> > if (IS_ERR(si->sir_clk) || IS_ERR(si->fir_clk)) {
> > err = PTR_ERR(IS_ERR(si->sir_clk) ? si->sir_clk : si->fir_clk);
>
> When fixing a bug, please describe what the bug is, and how the patch fixes
> it.
>
> A patch needs to be very very obvious to be able to get away with no
> changelog, and this one is not very very obvious.

It's not a bug fix - it's a stupidity of the clock lib that the API
doesn't really require.

I've not made up my mind what to do with this stuff, but if it requires
drivers to work around its short comings, then I'm not in favour of it.

(We have the above code working as is.)

--
Russell King
Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
maintainer of:
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/