Re: [PATCH 1/2] ARM: ux500: decomission the non-DT MTU init sequence

[Daniel Lezcano]

On 11/19/2013 11:55 PM, Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 11:40 PM, Daniel Lezcano
> <daniel.lezcano@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On 11/19/2013 10:27 PM, Linus Walleij wrote:
>
> > > -       if (!of_have_populated_dt())
> > > -               nmdk_timer_init(mtu_timer_base, IRQ_MTU0);
> >
> > If no timer have been defined in the dt [or wrongly defined], is there a
> > message to tell the user what is wrong ?
>
> Isn't that a question to be asked about a whole lot of such
> clocksource drivers and ARM platforms?

Yes, I did the comment based on your patch but I agree it must be 
addressed in a global manner.

> Most DT-only ARM platforms rely on
> arch/arm/kernel/time.c to call clocksource_of_init() if the
> machine_desc->init_time() hook is not set and has zero
> code to handle any such situation.
>
> So I guess what you're asking is whether we should patch
> clocksource_of_init() to warn if it cannot find any
> matching clock sources, like this:
>
>  From e55cf038b238d96b28d9fb01b5b6cdf345990d53 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 23:52:56 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH] clksrc-of: warn if no clock sources are found
>
> Many platforms rely on clocksource_of_init() being implicitly
> called for registering clock sources and will get zero warnings
> if no working clock source is available. Let's print a critical
> error message if no clock source is found.
>
> Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>

Yes, it sounds right to do this.

Thanks !

  -- Daniel

> ---
>   drivers/clocksource/clksrc-of.c | 4 ++++
>   1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/clocksource/clksrc-of.c b/drivers/clocksource/clksrc-of.c
> index 35639cf4e5a2..a30b42c3ac3b 100644
> --- a/drivers/clocksource/clksrc-of.c
> +++ b/drivers/clocksource/clksrc-of.c
> @@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ void __init clocksource_of_init(void)
>       struct device_node *np;
>       const struct of_device_id *match;
>       clocksource_of_init_fn init_func;
> +    unsigned clocksources = 0;
>
>       for_each_matching_node_and_match(np, __clksrc_of_table, &match) {
>           if (!of_device_is_available(np))
> @@ -36,5 +37,8 @@ void __init clocksource_of_init(void)
>           init_func = match->data;
>           init_func(np);
>           of_node_put(np);
> +        clocksources++;
>       }
> +    if (!clocksources)
> +        pr_crit("%s: no matching clocksources found\n", __func__);
>   }


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