Re: [PATCH v10 25/27] ARM: davinci: add device tree support to timer

From: David Lechner
Date: Thu May 17 2018 - 10:12:55 EST


On 05/17/2018 09:35 AM, Sekhar Nori wrote:
Hi David,

On Wednesday 09 May 2018 10:56 PM, David Lechner wrote:
This adds device tree support to the davinci timer so that when clocks
are moved to device tree, the timer will still work.

Signed-off-by: David Lechner <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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+static int __init of_davinci_timer_init(struct device_node *np)
+{
+ struct clk *clk;
+
+ clk = of_clk_get(np, 0);
+ if (IS_ERR(clk)) {
+ struct of_phandle_args clkspec;
+
+ /*
+ * Fall back to using ref_clk if the actual clock is not
+ * available. There will be problems later if the real clock
+ * source is disabled.
+ */
+
+ pr_warn("%s: falling back to ref_clk\n", __func__);
+
+ clkspec.np = of_find_node_by_name(NULL, "ref_clk");
+ if (IS_ERR(clkspec.np)) {
+ pr_err("%s: No clock available for timer!\n", __func__);
+ return PTR_ERR(clkspec.np);
+ }
+ clk = of_clk_get_from_provider(&clkspec);
+ of_node_put(clkspec.np);
+ }

Do we need this error path now?

Thanks,
Sekhar


No, not really.