linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4/9] clk: sunxi-ng: mux: Add support for mux tables

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Message-Id: <20160727103649.9e6ef332847b5a5c8fac66af@free.fr>
Date:	Wed, 27 Jul 2016 10:36:49 +0200
From:	Jean-Francois Moine <moinejf@...e.fr>
To:	Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@...e-electrons.com>
Cc:	Chen-Yu Tsai <wens@...e.org>,
	Michael Turquette <mturquette@...libre.com>,
	Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...eaurora.org>,
	Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
	devicetree@...r.kernel.org, dev@...ux-sunxi.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-clk@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/9] clk: sunxi-ng: mux: Add support for mux tables

On Wed, 27 Jul 2016 09:40:20 +0200
Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@...e-electrons.com> wrote:

> > > Parenting functions would also not work as expected,
> > > clk_hw_get_parent_by_index being the obvious example, in that case
> > > returning the empty string for an invalid parent, while it should
> > > really return NULL.
> > 
> > I don't see why the clock should be orphan.
> > Then, when a parent is "", clk_hw_get_parent_by_index() returns NULL.
> 
> Why? It should return NULL when there's no parent, while you
> explicitly registered a parent.

"" is not an existing parent. It could be "none" / "dum" / "toto" / ...
with the same result: 'this index cannot be used in mux'.

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