Re: [PATCH v4 1/8] clk: clkdev/of_clk - add managed lookup and provider registrations

Matti Vaittinen
2018-11-30T12:59:17Z

On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 11:06:53AM +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 12:50:22PM +0200, Matti Vaittinen wrote:
> > Hello Stephen,
> >
> > Thanks a bunch for taking the time and reviewing this!
> >
> > On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 12:54:10AM -0800, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> > > Quoting Matti Vaittinen (2018-11-13 03:55:58)
> > > > With MFD devices the clk properties may be contained in MFD (parent) DT
> > > > node. Current devm_of_clk_add_hw_provider assumes the clk is bound to MFD
> > > > subdevice not to MFD device (parent). Add
> > > > devm_of_clk_add_hw_provider_parent to tackle this issue.
> > > >
> > > > Also clkdev registration lacks of managed registration functions and it
> > > > seems few drivers do not drop clkdev lookups at exit. Add
> > > > devm_clk_hw_register_clkdev and devm_clk_release_clkdev to ease lookup
> > > > releasing at exit.
> > >
> > > Please split this into clkdev and non-clkdev devm functionality.
> > Allright. I'll split this to two patches.
>
> Definitely, please note that clkdev is separate from the common
> clk stuff, and is actually maintained by a different person (me)
> although I currently defer much of the review to the common clk
> guys.

Right. This clarifies how clkdev is maintained. Thanks for letting me
know. Is it still Ok to do these changes through linux-clk tree or is
there some other tree where the devm portion should be submitted? If so,
how should the dependencies be handled?

Br,
Matti Vaittinen

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