linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 1/8] clk: clkdev/of_clk - add managed lookup and provider registrations

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Date:   Fri, 30 Nov 2018 14:59:04 +0200
From:   Matti Vaittinen <matti.vaittinen@...rohmeurope.com>
To:     Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@...linux.org.uk>
Cc:     Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...nel.org>, mazziesaccount@...il.com,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Michael Turquette <mturquette@...libre.com>,
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        Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@...nel.org>,
        Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@...sung.com>,
        Andy Gross <andy.gross@...aro.org>,
        David Brown <david.brown@...aro.org>,
        Andrey Smirnov <andrew.smirnov@...il.com>,
        Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>,
        Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>,
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        Huang Shijie <sjhuang@...vatar.ai>,
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        Akshu Agrawal <akshu.agrawal@....com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/8] clk: clkdev/of_clk - add managed lookup and
 provider registrations

On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 11:06:53AM +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 12:50:22PM +0200, Matti Vaittinen wrote:
> > Hello Stephen,
> > 
> > Thanks a bunch for taking the time and reviewing this!
> > 
> > On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 12:54:10AM -0800, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> > > Quoting Matti Vaittinen (2018-11-13 03:55:58)
> > > > With MFD devices the clk properties may be contained in MFD (parent) DT
> > > > node. Current devm_of_clk_add_hw_provider assumes the clk is bound to MFD
> > > > subdevice not to MFD device (parent). Add
> > > > devm_of_clk_add_hw_provider_parent to tackle this issue.
> > > > 
> > > > Also clkdev registration lacks of managed registration functions and it
> > > > seems few drivers do not drop clkdev lookups at exit. Add
> > > > devm_clk_hw_register_clkdev and devm_clk_release_clkdev to ease lookup
> > > > releasing at exit.
> > > 
> > > Please split this into clkdev and non-clkdev devm functionality.
> > Allright. I'll split this to two patches.
> 
> Definitely, please note that clkdev is separate from the common
> clk stuff, and is actually maintained by a different person (me)
> although I currently defer much of the review to the common clk
> guys.

Right. This clarifies how clkdev is maintained. Thanks for letting me
know. Is it still Ok to do these changes through linux-clk tree or is
there some other tree where the devm portion should be submitted? If so,
how should the dependencies be handled?

Br,
	Matti Vaittinen

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