[PATCH] usb: dwc3: core: Use IS_ERR_VALUE() for ref_clk rate check

Tom Rini trini at konsulko.com
Mon Feb 9 21:51:26 CET 2026


On Mon, Feb 09, 2026 at 09:35:54PM +0100, Marek Vasut wrote:
> On 2/9/26 9:14 PM, Jonas Karlman wrote:
> > clk_get_rate() in U-Boot is documented to return clock rate on success,
> > 0 for invalid clock and -ve error code for other errors. This differ
> > slightly from Linux where only >= 0 is returned from clk_get_rate().
> > 
> > Some clock drivers take advantage of this difference and may return -ve
> > error code for clocks not fully supported in U-Boot.
> > 
> > Use IS_ERR_VALUE() to check for an error code in addition to current
> > invalid clock check to fix broken and unpredicted behavior when clock
> > driver returns a -ve error code for the ref_clk.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Jonas Karlman <jonas at kwiboo.se>
> I wonder if it would be better to fix the API discrepancy . Could you try
> that instead ?

Which API discrepancy? clk_get_rate behaves the way it behaves
intentionally and there's some fairly long and recent threads about that
resulting from attepmts to change that.

-- 
Tom
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