Subject: AM335x OMAP2 common clock external fixed-clock registration

From: [email-masked] (Michael Welling)
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2015 14:06:23 -0500

On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 11:18:33AM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 11:12:03AM +0200, Sebastian Hesselbarth wrote:
> > On 17.04.2015 04:00, Michael Welling wrote:
> > >On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 01:23:50AM +0200, Sebastian Hesselbarth wrote:
> > >>On 17.04.2015 00:09, Michael Welling wrote:
> > >>>On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 10:37:19PM +0200, Sebastian Hesselbarth wrote:
> > >>>>On 16.04.2015 18:17, Michael Welling wrote:
> > [...]
> > >>>What would be the proper error path?
> > >>>What cleanup is required?
> > >>
> > >>A proper error path would be to release any claimed resource
> > >>on any error. If you look at the code, the only resources that
> > >>need to be released are the two clocks in question.
> > >
> > >So for every error return in the probe function and in the of si5351_dt_parse
> > >it needs to clk_put first right?
> > 
> > Not quite. The driver should clk_put() every clock that it called a
> > [of_]clk_get() for. The thing is that clocks can be passed by
> > platform_data and we never claim them.
> 
> I've always said clocks (as in struct clk) should never be passed through
> platform data.
>

What is the alternative for systems that still use the old platform files?

Hypothetically speaking of course.
 
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