Re: [PATCH v3 7/8] net: phy: Add support to configure clock in Broadcom iProc mdio mux

From: Andrew Lunn
Date: Wed Aug 01 2018 - 18:18:21 EST


> > As Florian pointed out, the clk_ API is happy to take a NULL pointer
> > for a clock. So you don't need this last else.
> >
> > Andrew
> >
> I do return with an error from the probe if the clk_prepare_enable() fails,
> so I was calling the prepare with a valid clock.

How many times do we need to say it?

NULL is a valid clock.

int clk_prepare(struct clk *clk)
{
if (!clk)
return 0;

return clk_core_prepare_lock(clk->core);
}

int clk_enable(struct clk *clk)
{
if (!clk)
return 0;

return clk_core_enable_lock(clk->core);
}

clk_prepare_enable(NULL) returns 0, which is not an error.

Andrew