Re: [PATCH v1 2/7] clk: bcm: rpi: Add a function to retrieve the maximum

Stephen Boyd
2022-09-14T18:16:04Z

Quoting Stefan Wahren (2022-09-14 11:09:04)
> Am 14.09.22 um 20:05 schrieb Stephen Boyd:
> > Quoting Stefan Wahren (2022-09-14 10:45:48)
> >> Am 14.09.22 um 17:50 schrieb Stephen Boyd:
> >>> Furthermore, I wonder if even that part needs to be implemented. Why
> >>> not make a direct call to rpi_firmware_property() and get the max rate?
> >>> All of that can live in the drm driver. Making it a generic API that
> >>> takes a 'struct clk' means that it looks like any clk can be passed,
> >>> when that isn't true. It would be better to restrict it to the one use
> >>> case so that the scope of the problem doesn't grow. I understand that it
> >>> duplicates a few lines of code, but that looks like a fair tradeoff vs.
> >>> exposing an API that can be used for other clks in the future.
> >> it would be nice to keep all the Rpi specific stuff out of the DRM
> >> driver, since there more users of it.
> > Instead of 'all' did you mean 'any'?
> yes

Why?