linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] clk: Don't cache errors from clk_ops::get

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Date:   Wed, 12 Feb 2020 15:28:10 -0800
From:   Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...nel.org>
To:     Michael Turquette <mturquette@...libre.com>,
        Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...nel.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-clk@...r.kernel.org,
        Douglas Anderson <dianders@...omium.org>,
        Heiko Stuebner <heiko@...ech.de>,
        Jerome Brunet <jbrunet@...libre.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] clk: Don't cache errors from clk_ops::get_phase()

Quoting Stephen Boyd (2020-02-05 15:27:59)
> We don't check for errors from clk_ops::get_phase() before storing away
> the result into the clk_core::phase member. This can lead to some fairly
> confusing debugfs information if these ops do return an error. Let's
> skip the store when this op fails to fix this. While we're here, move
> the locking outside of clk_core_get_phase() to simplify callers from
> the debugfs side.
> 
> Cc: Douglas Anderson <dianders@...omium.org>
> Cc: Heiko Stuebner <heiko@...ech.de>
> Cc: Jerome Brunet <jbrunet@...libre.com>
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...nel.org>
> ---

Applied to clk-next