Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] mfd: arizona: Factor out SYSCLK enable from wm5102 hardware patch

[Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>]

On Mon, 23 Mar 2015, Charles Keepax wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 01:52:13PM +0000, Lee Jones wrote:
> > On Tue, 17 Mar 2015, Charles Keepax wrote:
> > 
> > > wm5102 applies a custom hardware boot sequence, for this the SYSCLK
> > > needs to be enabled. This patch factors out the code that enables
> > > SYSCLK for this sequence such that it can be used for other boot time
> > > operations that require SYSCLK.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Charles Keepax <ckeepax@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
> > > ---
> <snip>
> > > +
> > > +static inline int arizona_apply_hardware_patch(struct arizona *arizona)
> > > +{
> > > +	return arizona_exec_with_sysclk(arizona, arizona_hardware_patch_wseq);
> > 
> > Not sure I like this much.
> > 
> > What's the reason for over-complicating this?  Can you just:
> > 
> > arizona_exec_with_sysclk(arizona);
> > arizona_hardware_patch_wseq(arizona); 
> > 
> > ... or if you need that call to be in the middle, split the calls up
> > further.
> > 
> 
> Yeah, it was just a handy way to store the state and keep the
> amount of code down. But I don't really have any problem with
> explicitly storing the state if you prefer that.
> 
> So would probably look something like:
> 
> struct sysclk_state;
> int ret;
> 
> ret = arizona_force_sysclk(arizona, &sysclk_state);
> if (ret) {
> 	//Handle error
> }
> ret = arizona_hardware_patch_wseq(arizona);
> if (ret) {
> 	//Handle error
> }
> ret = arizona_restore_sysclk(arizona, &sysclk_state);
> if (ret) {
> 	//Handle error
> }
> 
> I will assume you want it updated to look like this so let me
> know if not.

Looks much cleaner/less hacky.

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Lee Jones
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