Re: [PATCH v2] staging: media: meson: vdec: propagate devm_clk_get() errors

From: Nicolas Dufresne

Date: Tue Jul 14 2026 - 10:32:52 EST


Le mardi 14 juillet 2026 à 19:34 +0530, Alfie Varghese a écrit :
> vdec_probe() hardcodes -EPROBE_DEFER for all devm_clk_get() failures.
> This masks the actual error code returned by the clock framework, such
> as -ENOENT when a clock is not registered or -ENOMEM on allocation
> failure.
>
> Return PTR_ERR() instead to propagate the real error to the caller.
>
> Fixes: 4f75e7dfa6dc ("media: meson: vdec: add driver")
> Signed-off-by: Alfie Varghese <alfievarghese22@xxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Nicolas Dufresne <nicolas.dufresne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> ---
>  drivers/staging/media/meson/vdec/vdec.c | 10 +++++-----
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/media/meson/vdec/vdec.c b/drivers/staging/media/meson/vdec/vdec.c
> index a039d925c0fe..fba1e7f88d81 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/media/meson/vdec/vdec.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/media/meson/vdec/vdec.c
> @@ -1026,24 +1026,24 @@ static int vdec_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>       core->platform->revision == VDEC_REVISION_SM1) {
>   core->vdec_hevcf_clk = devm_clk_get(dev, "vdec_hevcf");
>   if (IS_ERR(core->vdec_hevcf_clk))
> - return -EPROBE_DEFER;
> + return PTR_ERR(core->vdec_hevcf_clk);
>   }
>  
>   core->dos_parser_clk = devm_clk_get(dev, "dos_parser");
>   if (IS_ERR(core->dos_parser_clk))
> - return -EPROBE_DEFER;
> + return PTR_ERR(core->dos_parser_clk);
>  
>   core->dos_clk = devm_clk_get(dev, "dos");
>   if (IS_ERR(core->dos_clk))
> - return -EPROBE_DEFER;
> + return PTR_ERR(core->dos_clk);
>  
>   core->vdec_1_clk = devm_clk_get(dev, "vdec_1");
>   if (IS_ERR(core->vdec_1_clk))
> - return -EPROBE_DEFER;
> + return PTR_ERR(core->vdec_1_clk);
>  
>   core->vdec_hevc_clk = devm_clk_get(dev, "vdec_hevc");
>   if (IS_ERR(core->vdec_hevc_clk))
> - return -EPROBE_DEFER;
> + return PTR_ERR(core->vdec_hevc_clk);
>  
>   irq = platform_get_irq_byname(pdev, "vdec");
>   if (irq < 0)

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