[PATCH] clk: Print an error when clk registration fails

From: Stephen Boyd
Date: Wed Feb 26 2025 - 18:54:19 EST


We have a lot of driver code that prints an error message when
registering a clk fails. Do that in the core function instead to
consolidate code. This also helps drivers avoid the anti-pattern of
accessing the struct clk_hw::init pointer after registration.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/clk/clk.c | 7 +++++++
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/clk/clk.c b/drivers/clk/clk.c
index cf7720b9172f..466521248a34 100644
--- a/drivers/clk/clk.c
+++ b/drivers/clk/clk.c
@@ -4397,6 +4397,13 @@ __clk_register(struct device *dev, struct device_node *np, struct clk_hw *hw)
fail_name:
kref_put(&core->ref, __clk_release);
fail_out:
+ if (dev) {
+ dev_err_probe(dev, ret, "failed to register clk '%s' (%pS)\n",
+ init->name, hw);
+ } else {
+ pr_err("%pOF: error %pe: failed to register clk '%s' (%pS)\n",
+ np, ERR_PTR(ret), init->name, hw);
+ }
return ERR_PTR(ret);
}


base-commit: 2014c95afecee3e76ca4a56956a936e23283f05b
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https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/clk/linux.git/
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sboyd/spmi.git