Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] firmware: qcom: scm: Return PTR_ERR when devm_clk_get fails

From: Sarangdhar Joshi
Date: Fri Nov 11 2016 - 16:30:36 EST


On 11/09/2016 05:49 PM, Stephen Boyd wrote:
On 11/03, Sarangdhar Joshi wrote:
When devm_clk_get fails for core clock, the failure was ignored
and the core_clk was explicitly set to NULL so that other
remaining clocks can be queried. However, now that we have a
cleaner way of expressing the clock dependency, return failure
when devm_clk_get fails for core clock.

Signed-off-by: Sarangdhar Joshi <spjoshi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Why can't this be folded into the second patch? It seems
incorrect to allow it to silently work in patch 2 even though
we've flagged that clk as a requirement and then change that
behavior here.


The idea was keep it separate so that if someone needs to keep earlier behavior (of ignoring the core clock failure), then it would be easier to just revert this commit and still use flag mechanism. Also convenient with git bisect for finding offending commit. I don't mind squashing this into patch 2 if we think that's better.

Regards,
Sarang

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