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

[Jerome Brunet <jbrunet@baylibre.com>]

On Thu 28 Nov 2024 at 15:11, "Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@arndb.de> wrote:

>> All clk, pinctrl or regulator are used by other driver yes, this one as
>> well, sure.
>>
>> What special about this on is that it is an auxiliary bus driver.
>> It is directly instantiated by another driver. That's where
>> it differs. The axg-audio clock driver instantiate the auxiliary reset,
>> it does not use it, which is why it makes sense for it to select the
>> driver.
>
> Can you explain the logic behind this design? It seems that the
> entire problem here is the split into more drivers than it
> should be. It's common for clk drivers to also act as a
> reset driver, and my impression here is that you were trying
> too hard to split out the reset functionality into file
> in drivers/reset/ rather than to have it in drivers/clk/.
>
> Could you perhaps move the contents of
> drivers/reset/amlogic/reset-meson-aux.c into
> drivers/clk/meson/axg-audio.c, and change the exported
> symbol to a static function? This would still require
> a dependency on the exported meson_reset_toggle_ops,
> but that feels like a more natural interface here,
> since it's just a library module.

That's what we originally had. Reset implemented in clock.
I was specically asked to move the reset part in reset using
aux drivers.

https://lore.kernel.org/r/e3a85852b911fdf16dd9ae158f42b3ef.sboyd@kernel.org

Eventually that will happen for the rest of the reset implemented
under drivers/clk/meson.

It allows to make some code common between the platform reset
drivers and the aux ones. It also ease maintainance for both
Stephen and Philipp.

>
>      Arnd

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Jerome