Re: [PATCH] clk: amlogic: axg-audio: select RESET_MESON_AUX

["Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@arndb.de>]

On Tue, Dec 3, 2024, at 03:53, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> Quoting Arnd Bergmann (2024-11-28 07:34:46)
>> On Thu, Nov 28, 2024, at 16:06, Jerome Brunet wrote:
>> Stephen, can you please take a look here and see if you
>> have a better idea for either decoupling the two drivers
>> enough to avoid the link time dependency, or to reintegrate
>> the reset controller code into the clk driver and avoid
>> the complexity?
>
> I think the best approach is to add the reset auxilary device with a
> function that creates the auxiliary device directly by string name and
> does nothing else. Maybe we can have some helper in the auxiliary
> layer that does that all for us, because it's quite a bit of boiler
> plate that we need to write over and over again. Something like:
>
>   int devm_auxiliary_device_create(struct device *parent, const char *name)
>
> that does the whole kzalloc() + ida dance that
> devm_meson_rst_aux_register() is doing today and wraps it all up so that
> the device is removed when the parent driver unbinds. Then this clk
> driver can register the reset device with a single call and not need to
> do anything besides select AUXILIARY_BUS. The regmap can be acquired
> from the parent device in the auxiliary driver probe with
> dev_get_regmap(adev->parent).

I like the idea. Two questions about the interface:

 - should there be a 'void *platform_data' argument anyway?
   Even if this can be looked up from the parent, it seems
   useful enough

 - What is the scope of the 'ida' number? My impression was
   this should be local to one parent device, but I don't
   know how the number is used in the end, so maybe a global
   number allocator is sufficient.

       Arnd