[PATCH] CLKDEV: Add helper routines to allocate and add clkdevs for given struct clk *

[cavokz@gmail.com (Domenico Andreoli)]

On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 10:56:55PM +0200, s.hauer at pengutronix.de wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 07:09:32PM +0530, viresh kumar wrote:
> > On 4/16/12, Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> > > Checking for NULL clk (or IS_ERR(clk)) and returning -ENOMEM does make
> > > sense as I mentioned in my original proposal (it allows you to pass the
> > > returned value from clk_register() directly to this function without
> > > further checking, and you get the right error code.
> > 
> > V2:
> > 
> > From: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
> > CLKDEV: Add helper routines to allocate and add clkdevs for given struct clk *
> > 
> > With common clock framework, clks are allocated at runtime. Some of them require
> > clkdevs to be allocated and added in global clkdev list.
> > 
> > This patch introduces helper routines to:
> > 
> >  - allocate and add single clkdev for a single clk structure.
> >  - add multiple clkdevs for a single clk structure.
> > 
> > +
> > +int clk_register_single_clkdev(struct clk *clk, const char *con_id,
> > +		const char *dev_fmt, ...)
> 
> Can we drop the 'single' in the name? Otherwise it's quite a long
> function name. I think name clk_register_clkdev makes it clear already
> that we only register a single clkdev.

clkdev_register?

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