Re: [RFC PATCH v2 1/5] clk: meson: axg: move reset controller's code to separate module

[Stephen Boyd <sboyd@kernel.org>]

Quoting Jerome Brunet (2024-04-02 07:52:38)
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> On Thu 28 Mar 2024 at 04:08, Jan Dakinevich <jan.dakinevich@salutedevices.com> wrote:
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> > This code will by reused by A1 SoC.
> 
> Could expand a bit please ?
> 
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Jan Dakinevich <jan.dakinevich@salutedevices.com>
> 
> In general, I like the idea.
> 
> We do have a couple a reset registers lost in middle of clocks and this
> change makes it possible to re-use the code instead duplicating it.
> 
> The exported function would be used by audio clock controllers, but the
> module created would be purely about reset.
> 
> One may wonder how it ended up in the clock tree, especially since the
> kernel as a reset tree too.
> 
> I'm not sure if this should move to the reset framework or if it would
> be an unnecessary churn. Stephen, Philipp, do you have an opinion on
> this ?
> 

I'd prefer it be made into an auxiliary device and the driver put in
drivers/reset/ so we can keep reset code in the reset directory. The
auxiliary device creation function can also be in the drivers/reset/
directory so that the clk driver calls some function to create and
register the device.