linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 6/7] clk: Make clk API return per-user struct clk instances

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Date:	Wed, 19 Nov 2014 15:55:53 +0100
From:	Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu.vizoso@...labora.com>
To:	Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...eaurora.org>
Cc:	Mike Turquette <mturquette@...aro.org>,
	Javier Martinez Canillas <javier.martinez@...labora.co.uk>,
	Paul Walmsley <paul@...an.com>,
	Tony Lindgren <tony@...mide.com>,
	Russell King <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	linux-omap@...r.kernel.org,
	"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 6/7] clk: Make clk API return per-user struct clk instances

On 14 November 2014 08:06, Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...eaurora.org> wrote:
> On 10/30, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
>> Moves clock state to struct clk_core, but takes care to change as little API as
>> possible.
>>
>> struct clk_hw still has a pointer to a struct clk, which is the
>> implementation's per-user clk instance, for backwards compatibility.
>>
>> The struct clk that clk_get_parent() returns isn't owned by the caller, but by
>> the clock implementation, so the former shouldn't call clk_put() on it.
>>
>> Because some boards in mach-omap2 still register clocks statically, their clock
>> registration had to be updated to take into account that the clock information
>> is stored in struct clk_core now.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu.vizoso@...labora.com>
>
> It would be good to have Russell at least ack the clkdev bits.
> There's still more work to do in the future here, but
>
> Reviewed-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...eaurora.org>

Thanks, Stephen.

Russell, do you think we could have your ack?

Regards,

Tomeu
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