linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] cpufreq: cpu0: Extend support beyond CPU0

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Date:	Thu, 26 Jun 2014 18:53:54 -0700
From:	Mike Turquette <mturquette@...aro.org>
To:	Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...eaurora.org>,
	"Viresh Kumar" <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>
Cc:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
	"Shawn Guo" <shawn.guo@...aro.org>,
	"Lists linaro-kernel" <linaro-kernel@...ts.linaro.org>,
	"linux-pm@...r.kernel.org" <linux-pm@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Arvind Chauhan" <arvind.chauhan@....com>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
	linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org,
	"Sachin Kamat" <spk.linux@...il.com>,
	"Thomas P Abraham" <thomas.ab@...sung.com>,
	"Nishanth Menon" <nm@...com>, "Tomasz Figa" <t.figa@...sung.com>,
	"Mark Brown" <broonie@...nel.org>,
	"Mark Rutland" <Mark.Rutland@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] cpufreq: cpu0: Extend support beyond CPU0

Quoting Stephen Boyd (2014-06-26 17:06:00)
> Finally, checking for equivalent pointers from clk_get() will work now,

Please don't do that. Even though it works for the current
implementation, comparing those pointers from a driver violates how
clkdev is supposed to work. The pointer returned by clk_get should only
be dereferenced by a driver to check if it is an error code. Anything
besides an error code is no business of the driver.

> but it isn't future-proof if/when the clock framework starts returning
> dynamically allocated clock pointers for each clk_get() invocation.
> Maybe we need a function in the common clock framework that tells us if
> the clocks are the same either via DT or by taking two clock pointers?

I looked through the patch briefly and did not see why we would need to
do this. Any hint?

Thanks,
Mike

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