Re: [PATCH v3 0/4] DT clock bindings

[Mike Turquette <mturquette@ti.com>]

On 20120621-10:00, Rob Herring wrote:
> On 06/21/2012 02:27 AM, Chris Ball wrote:
> > 
> > 2) Use alloc_bootmem() instead of kzalloc() in of_clk_add_provider(),
> >    because we need to set up clocks during .init_early on ARM (which
> >    happens pre-slab) so that they are available for platform init.
> 
> This depends on 1 as the common clock code would have the same issue.
> Generally, the first place clocks are needed is the timer init. At that
> point, you can call kzalloc. This is where all the clock init used to be
> done until init_early was added and some platforms have moved their
> clock init. I don't think there was really ever much reason to move it
> other than to make the timer init function only deal with timer setup.
> 

Hi Rob,

Just FYI I've been looking at using alloc_bootmem in the common clk code
as a way to get rid of the static initialization stuff (which only
existed due to very early initialization of timers).

The suggested change above to of_clk_add_provider would jive well with
my change to the common clk code.

Regards,
Mike