Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] mmc: sdhci-npcm: Add NPCM SDHCI driver

[Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>]

On 3/17/23 10:36, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 17, 2023 at 4:16 PM Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Dec 05, 2022 at 10:53:51AM +0200, Tomer Maimon wrote:
>>> Add Nuvoton NPCM BMC sdhci-pltfm controller driver.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Tomer Maimon <tmaimon77@gmail.com>
>>
>> I still don't see this driver in the upstream kernel, or in linux-next.
>>
>> Couple of comments:
>>
>> - devm ordering does not really matter here. The devm resource
>>    is the clock, it does not depend on local data, and it will be
>>    released last, so that is ok.
> 
> Not sure. Strictly speaking this is the problem. If you leave a clock
> going on in a wrong period of time it (theoretically) might break your
> hardware once and forever. Similar discussion about power, clock and
> reset signals has been held for camera sensors.
> 

In general I agree, but not here. The remove function (sdhci_pltfm_unregister)
does call clk_disable_unprepare(), so the clock isn't left running.

Also, I think it is worthwhile to point out that exactly the same sequence
(sdhci_pltfm_init followed by devm_clk_get and cleanup/removal with
sdhci_pltfm_unregister) is shared among several sdhci drivers (including
the memory leak I pointed out, but only in the aspeed driver).

On a higher level I do agree that the sdhci platform code is in need of cleanup,
but I don't think it is appropriate to tie such a cleanup to this driver
submission.

Note that I don't really care much, I just realized that this patch is stuck
when I tried to test booting from SD drive with qemu.

Guenter