Re: Locking in the clk API, part 2: clk_prepare/clk_unprepare

[Russell King - ARM Linux]

On Tue, Feb 01, 2011 at 04:22:03PM +0100, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> Full ack.  (I wonder if you misunderstood me or wanted to put my
> statement into more words.  Jassi didn't like that a clk_enable without
> a previous clk_prepare worked on some platforms and on others it
> doesn't.  With BUG_ON(clk->ops->prepare && !clk->prepare_count) in
> clk_enable we have exactly this situation.)

Even with a NULL clk->ops->prepare function, we still want drivers to
have called clk_prepare().  So we can do something like:

	if (WARN_ON(clk->prepare_count == 0))
		return -EINVAL;

in clk_enable() should be sufficient and noisy enough not to be missed.

I'd avoid BUG_ON() here as that will take the system down, which may
increase the chances of getting useful bug reports.
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