[PATCH] drm: shmob_drm: Check clk_prepare_enable() return value

Laurent Pinchart laurent.pinchart at ideasonboard.com
Tue Dec 3 17:38:21 PST 2013


Hi Thierry,

On Tuesday 03 December 2013 10:59:24 Thierry Reding wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 02, 2013 at 01:52:20AM +0100, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> [...]
> 
> > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/shmobile/shmob_drm_crtc.c
> > b/drivers/gpu/drm/shmobile/shmob_drm_crtc.c
> [...]
> 
> > @@ -170,7 +178,9 @@ static void shmob_drm_crtc_start(struct shmob_drm_crtc
> > *scrtc)
> >  		return;
> >  	
> >  	/* Enable clocks before accessing the hardware. */
> > -	shmob_drm_clk_on(sdev);
> > +	ret = shmob_drm_clk_on(sdev);
> > +	if (ret < 0)
> > +		return;
> 
> Perhaps this should be printing an error or using WARN_ON()? Otherwise
> it might be very difficult to diagnose what's going wrong.

That's a good point. In practice, as the driver always uses a Renesas SoC MSTP 
clock, the clock code will print a message to the kernel log though, so I'm 
not sure whether we should duplicate that here. If you think we should I'll 
submit a new patch.

-- 
Regards,

Laurent Pinchart
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