RE: [PATCH] clk: clk-fixed-factor: Clear OF_POPULATED flag in case of failure

[Stephen Boyd]

Quoting Rajan Vaja (2018-07-26 06:03:16)
> Hi Stephen,
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Stephen Boyd [mailto:sboyd@xxxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: 25 July 2018 10:11 PM
> > To: Rajan Vaja <RAJANV@xxxxxxxxxx>; mturquette@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Cc: linux-clk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Rajan Vaja
> > <RAJANV@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Subject: Re: [PATCH] clk: clk-fixed-factor: Clear OF_POPULATED flag in case of
> > failure
> > 
> > Quoting Rajan Vaja (2018-07-17 06:17:00)
> > > Fixed factor clock has two initializations at of_clk_init() time
> > > and during platform driver probe. Before of_clk_init() call,
> > > node is marked as populated and so its probe never gets called.
> > >
> > > During of_clk_init() fixed factor clock registration may fail if
> > > any of its parent clock is not registered. In this case, it doesn't
> > > get chance to retry registration from probe. Clear OF_POPULATED
> > > flag if fixed factor clock registration fails so that clock
> > > registration is attempted again from probe.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Rajan Vaja <rajan.vaja@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > >  drivers/clk/clk-fixed-factor.c | 9 ++++++++-
> > >  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/drivers/clk/clk-fixed-factor.c b/drivers/clk/clk-fixed-factor.c
> > > index d72ef2d..f3ae4ff 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/clk/clk-fixed-factor.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/clk/clk-fixed-factor.c
> > > @@ -177,8 +177,15 @@ static struct clk *_of_fixed_factor_clk_setup(struct
> > device_node *node)
> > >
> > >         clk = clk_register_fixed_factor(NULL, clk_name, parent_name, flags,
> > >                                         mult, div);
> > > -       if (IS_ERR(clk))
> > > +       if (IS_ERR(clk)) {
> > > +               /*
> > > +                * If parent clock is not registered, registration would fail.
> > > +                * Clear OF_POPULATED flag so that clock registration can be
> > > +                * attempted again from probe function.
> > > +                */
> > > +               of_node_clear_flag(node, OF_POPULATED);
> > >                 return clk;
> > > +       }
> > 
> > BTW, this patch was seriously mangled for me so I had to apply it by
> > hand. Please be more careful next time and consider using something like
> > git-send-email and git-format-patch to send patches.
> [Rajan] I used git-send-email only and sent same way as I used to send other patches. Not sure where was issue.
> Sorry for the inconvenience.  
> 

It must be your Outlook server messing things up. I see
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable in the headers, which
probably caused my MUA to choke and line break things in the wrong
place.