Re: [PATCH 1/2] i2c: designware: register clkdev during acpi device configuration

[Ken Xue <Ken.Xue@amd.com>]

On Wed, 2015-10-21 at 10:28 +0300, Mika Westerberg wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 09:11:33AM +0800, Ken Xue wrote:
> > On Tue, 2015-10-20 at 14:17 +0300, Mika Westerberg wrote:
> > > On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 02:38:01PM +0800, Ken Xue wrote:
> > > > DW I2C driver tries to register a clk from id->driver_data as an
> > > > alternative way besides intel lpss. But code doesn't register the
> > > > clk to clkdev. So, devm_clk_get will fail during probe.
> > > > 
> > > > The patch can fix this issue.
> > > 
> > > Since you now have drivers/acpi/acpi_apd.c for AMD ACPI stuff, can you
> > > create the clock there just like we do for Intel stuff?
> > Sure. APD already creates the clock for AMD0010 as you expected. And the
> > next patch([PATCH 2/2] i2c: designware: remove freq definition for
> > "AMD0010" in acpi_device_id) is dropping the old way for getting freq.
> 
> So this patch is not necessary, right?
Even though there is no use case that getting freq from id->driver_data,
But if we want to keep this design, then we should use current patch for
fixing the potential issue. So, the patch is nice to have.

Otherwise, we have to revert whole old design(a445900c).