Re: [PATCH 3/3] arm64: dts: renesas: r8a7795: add ccree binding

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

Hi Gilad,

On Mon, May 21, 2018 at 3:43 PM, Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, May 17, 2018 at 1:16 PM, Geert Uytterhoeven
> <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Indeed. From a quick glance, it looks like drivers/crypto/ccree/cc_driver.c
>> does not distinguish between the absence of the clock property, and an
>> actual error in getting the clock, and never considers any error a failure
>> (incl. -PROBE_DEFER).
>>
>> As of_clk_get() returns -ENOENT for both a missing clock property and a
>> missing clock, you should use (devm_)clk_get() instead, and distinguish
>> between NULL (no clock property) and IS_ERR() (actual failure -> abort).
>
> I was trying to do as you suggested but I didn't quite get what is the
> dev_id (2nd) parameter to devm_clk_get parameter is supposed to be.

It's the (optional) name of the clock, helpful in case there is more than one.
In your case, NULL is fine.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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