Re: [PATCH] arm/tegra: clk_get should not be fatal

From: Joe Perches
Date: Tue Oct 25 2011 - 12:26:12 EST


On Tue, 2011-10-25 at 19:15 +0300, pdeschrijver@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> The timer and rtc-timer clocks aren't gated by default, so there is no reason
> to crash the system if the dummy enable call failed.
[]
> diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-tegra/timer.c b/arch/arm/mach-tegra/timer.c
[]
> @@ -186,16 +186,20 @@ static void __init tegra_init_timer(void)
> int ret;
>
> clk = clk_get_sys("timer", NULL);
> - BUG_ON(IS_ERR(clk));
> - clk_enable(clk);
> + if (IS_ERR(clk))
> + pr_warning("Unable to get timer clock");
> + else
> + clk_enable(clk);
>
> /*
> * rtc registers are used by read_persistent_clock, keep the rtc clock
> * enabled
> */
> clk = clk_get_sys("rtc-tegra", NULL);
> - BUG_ON(IS_ERR(clk));
> - clk_enable(clk);
> + if (IS_ERR(clk))
> + pr_warning("Unable to get rtc-tegra clock");
> + else
> + clk_enable(clk);

Are these messages are really necessary?
Maybe just:
if (!IS_ERR(clk))
clk_enable(clk)

If these are really necessary, please use
pr_warn("Unable to get <foo>\n");
pr_warn and with a terminating newline.

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