Re: [PATCH 2/3] clk: amlogic: drop clk_regmap tables

[Jerome Brunet <jbrunet@baylibre.com>]

On Fri 21 Mar 2025 at 16:46, Jerome Brunet <jbrunet@baylibre.com> wrote:

>>> 
>>> I admit this is heavily inspired by how devres works :) but it does solve
>>> the early clock controller problem and does not scale with the number of
>>> clock registered.
>>> 
>>
>> I don't know if devres is a good model. It's about tracking allocations
>> and things to undo later, not really to track things to do when called
>> initially.
>
> My point was more the decoupling it allows.
> Maybe it is me being too picky, but what I'm trying to do is related to the
> clock type, so it bothers me when it scales with the number of instances
> instead of the type.
>
> More generally, something devres-like allows to register an attribute
> and link it to a group. Then the group members come and just pick what
> they need. Whatever manages the attribute does not have to track
> them. That is pretty much aligned with what I'm trying to do.

Just to be clear, this idea is meant to live in /drivers/clk/meson, for
a start a least, not as something generic.

-- 
Jerome