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Message-ID: <20090305084713.GB6026@infomag.iguana.be>
Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 09:47:13 +0100
From: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@...ana.be>
To: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@...il.com>
Cc: wim@...ana.be, lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] watchdog: fsl_get_sys_freq() failure not noticed
Hi Roel,
> Maybe it is nicer to do a test like:
>
> if (freq < MAX_FREQ)
>
> but I don't know what MAX_FREQ should be.
> ------------------------------>8-------------8<---------------------------------
> fsl_get_sys_freq() may return -1 when 'soc' isn't found, but in gef_wdt_probe()
> 'freq' is unsigned, so the test doesn't catch that.
>
> Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@...il.com>
> ---
> diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/gef_wdt.c b/drivers/watchdog/gef_wdt.c
> index f0c2b7a..734d980 100644
> --- a/drivers/watchdog/gef_wdt.c
> +++ b/drivers/watchdog/gef_wdt.c
> @@ -269,7 +269,7 @@ static int __devinit gef_wdt_probe(struct of_device *dev,
> bus_clk = 133; /* in MHz */
>
> freq = fsl_get_sys_freq();
> - if (freq > 0)
> + if (freq != -1)
> bus_clk = freq;
>
> /* Map devices registers into memory */
patch added into the linux-2.6-watchdog-next tree.
Will sent it to linus for inclusion into main kernel tree tonight together with some other fixes.
Kind regards,
Wim.
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