Re: [RFC PATCH v2 11/15] cpufreq: kirkwood-cpufreq: remove device tree parsing for cpu nodes

[Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>]

On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 03:06:20PM +0100, Sudeep.KarkadaNagesha@arm.com wrote:
> From: Sudeep KarkadaNagesha <sudeep.karkadanagesha@arm.com>
> 
> Now that the cpu device registration initialises the of_node(if available)
> appropriately for all the cpus, parsing here is redundant.
> 
> This patch removes all DT parsing and uses cpu->of_node instead.
> 
> Cc: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
> Cc: Jason Cooper <jason@lakedaemon.net>
> Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
> Signed-off-by: Sudeep KarkadaNagesha <sudeep.karkadanagesha@arm.com>
> ---
>  drivers/cpufreq/kirkwood-cpufreq.c | 14 ++++++++++++--
>  1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/kirkwood-cpufreq.c b/drivers/cpufreq/kirkwood-cpufreq.c
> index c233ea6..18aa3eb 100644
> --- a/drivers/cpufreq/kirkwood-cpufreq.c
> +++ b/drivers/cpufreq/kirkwood-cpufreq.c
> @@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
>  #include <linux/module.h>
>  #include <linux/clk.h>
>  #include <linux/clk-provider.h>
> +#include <linux/cpu.h>
>  #include <linux/cpufreq.h>
>  #include <linux/of.h>
>  #include <linux/platform_device.h>
> @@ -165,6 +166,7 @@ static struct cpufreq_driver kirkwood_cpufreq_driver = {
>  static int kirkwood_cpufreq_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>  {
>  	struct device_node *np;
> +	struct device *cpu_dev;
>  	struct resource *res;
>  	int err;
>  
> @@ -175,9 +177,17 @@ static int kirkwood_cpufreq_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>  	if (IS_ERR(priv.base))
>  		return PTR_ERR(priv.base);
>  
> -	np = of_find_node_by_path("/cpus/cpu@0");
> -	if (!np)
> +	cpu_dev = get_cpu_device(0);
> +	if (!cpu_dev) {
> +		dev_err(&pdev->dev, "failed to get cpu device\n");
>  		return -ENODEV;
> +	}
> +
> +	np = of_node_get(cpu_dev->of_node);
> +	if (!np) {
> +		dev_err(&pdev->dev, "failed to get cpu device node\n");
> +		return -ENODEV;
> +	}

Hi Sudeep

Are we not going a bit backwards here? You are replacing two lines
with 10 lines.

How about putting these 10 lines into some helper,
of_get_cpu_device()?  It would be useful for spear, kirkwood and
imx6q, and maybe others.

    Thanks
	Andrew