Re: [PATCH 0/4] Improve CLKSRC_OF matching

[Rob Herring]

On 02/07/2013 04:44 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Thursday 07 February 2013, Rob Herring wrote:
>> From: Rob Herring <rob.herring@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> In the recently added support for OF based clocksource init, a device node
>> will be matched twice. We can fix this by passing the device node to the
>> init functions and removing the match functions within the init functions.
>>
>> This is based on arm-soc for-next branch and commit "of: fix incorrect
>> return value of of_find_matching_node_and_match()" in my DT for-next
>> branch.
>>
> 
> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> 
> Conceptually this is definitely the way to go, but I noticed that
> you create build warnings for the bisection points after the
> first patch. I would suggest actually merging the first three
> patches into one and also changing the prototype for the tegra
> function in that patch to avoid this.
> 

How so? I don't see a warning as there is no type checking on the init
function since of_device_id.data is just a void *. It would be good to
have type checking here if you know a way, but I don't. I agree it is a
bit abusive and can change it as you suggest.

Rob
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