linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/6] clk: tegra: don't abort clk init on error

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Date:	Sat, 16 Aug 2014 01:45:13 +0300
From:	Peter De Schrijver <pdeschrijver@...dia.com>
To:	Stephen Warren <swarren@...dotorg.org>
CC:	Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>, Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@....com>,
	"Mark Rutland" <mark.rutland@....com>,
	Ian Campbell <ijc+devicetree@...lion.org.uk>,
	Kumar Gala <galak@...eaurora.org>,
	Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@...il.com>,
	Russell King <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	Prashant Gaikwad <pgaikwad@...dia.com>,
	Mike Turquette <mturquette@...aro.org>,
	Joseph Lo <josephl@...dia.com>,
	Alex Courbot <acourbot@...dia.com>,
	"Sebastian Hesselbarth" <sebastian.hesselbarth@...il.com>,
	Tuomas Tynkkynen <ttynkkynen@...dia.com>,
	"devicetree@...r.kernel.org" <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-tegra@...r.kernel.org" <linux-tegra@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] clk: tegra: don't abort clk init on error

On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 07:16:15PM +0200, Stephen Warren wrote:
> On 07/15/2014 09:24 AM, Peter De Schrijver wrote:
> > Just continue initializing clocks if there's an error on one of them. This
> > is useful if there's a mistake in the inittable, because the system could
> > hang if clk_disable_unused() disables some of the critical clocks in this
> > table.
> 
> If there's a problem in the init table, we should simply fix it instead
> of working around it.
> 

Yes, ofcourse. However today we silently stop processing the init_table if a
clock cannot be found. That doesn't sound right either to me and makes detecting
wrong entries in the table more complex than it should be.

> At the very least, we need to WARN on this rather than just ignoring
> problems.

Cheers,

Peter.
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