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From: linux@arm.linux.org.uk (Russell King - ARM Linux)
Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2012 11:06:05 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 0/3] Introduce devm_clk_register()
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On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 11:05:27PM -0700, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> The first patch in this series fixes error checking in the wm831x clock
> driver and is here to prevent context conflicts in the third patch.
> I split it out in case it needed to merge sooner rather than later.
> 
> The goal of this series is to add devm_clk_register() so I can use it in
> some MSM clock code I'm sending out in the near future. The second 
> patch adds the API and the third patch moves over an existing user of
> clk_unregister() to the devm API.

Can we guarantee that the clocks are unused when the module is removed?
If we can't make that guarantee, then devm_* should not be used here,
and instead there should be refcounting done in the clocks (that's what
the __clk_get() and __clk_put() hooks are there for.)