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Message-ID: <20130103140000.GA9656@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Thu, 3 Jan 2013 15:00:00 +0100
From:	Richard Cochran <richardcochran@...il.com>
To:	Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>
Cc:	davem@...emloft.net, tony@...mide.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: clk dereference in drivers/net/ethernet/ti/cpts.c

On Thu, Jan 03, 2013 at 11:20:52AM +0100, Julia Lawall wrote:
> There has been a discussion recently about how the result of get_clk
> should be an opaque handle, not a value that can be dereferenced:
> 
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/20/105
> 
> There is such a dereference in drivers/net/ethernet/ti/cpts.c, in the
> function cpts_clk_init:
> 
> cpts->freq = cpts->refclk->recalc(cpts->refclk);
> 
> It was not obvious to me, however, what API function should be used
> instead, so I am just reporting the (potential) problem.

This issue has been fixed in v3.8-rc2.

Thanks,
Richard
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