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Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 03/27] clk: davinci: psc: allow for dev == NULL
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From:   Sekhar Nori <nsekhar@ti.com>
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Date:   Tue, 1 May 2018 19:32:22 +0530
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On Friday 27 April 2018 05:47 AM, David Lechner wrote:
> +static inline void *_devm_kzalloc(struct device *dev, size_t size, gfp_t flags)
> +{
> +	if (dev)
> +		return devm_kzalloc(dev, size, flags);
> +
> +	return kzalloc(size, flags);
> +}

I have the same question on the utility of this. A memory allocation
error so early on is not going to result in a bootable system anyway.
So, I wonder if its better to just BUG() in such cases. That will
actually help faster debug than returning an error back. I know the push
back on using BUG(), but clock drivers are special, and I think thats
why its seems to be used quite a bit already.

Thanks,
Sekhar