Re: [PATCH] spi: microchip-core: fix passing zero to PTR_ERR warning

From: Conor.Dooley
Date: Wed Jun 15 2022 - 08:42:46 EST


On 15/06/2022 13:37, Mark Brown wrote:
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> On Wed, Jun 15, 2022 at 11:57:37AM +0000, Conor.Dooley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> On 15/06/2022 12:40, Mark Brown wrote:
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>>> On Wed, Jun 15, 2022 at 12:30:22PM +0100, Conor Dooley wrote:
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>>>> - ret = PTR_ERR(spi->clk);
>>>> + ret = !spi->clk ? -ENXIO : PTR_ERR(spi->clk);
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>>> I think you're looking for PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO() here?
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>> Maybe I don't understand, so let me explain what I think you're
>> suggesting & maybe you can correct me:
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>>> - ret = PTR_ERR(spi->clk);
>>> + ret = PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO(spi->clk);
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>> But if spi->clk is NULL, this will return 0 from the probe
>> rather than returning an error?
>> If that's not what you meant, lmk
>
> Oh, hang on - what error conditions can clk_get() return 0 in? The
> documentation doesn't mention any...

If !CONFIG_HAVE_CLK, (without which it won't boot on the coreplex)
but I don't think I can be sure that CONFIG_HAVE_CLK will /always/
be enabled for other uses of the FPGA.