linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 1/1] clkdev: change prototype of clk_register

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Date:	Wed, 06 May 2015 15:34:09 +0300
From:	Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
To:	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...eaurora.org>,
	Mike Turquette <mturquette@...aro.org>,
	Lee Jones <lee@...nel.org>,
	Bryan Huntsman <bryanh@...eaurora.org>,
	Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@....com>,
	Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org>,
	Sylwester Nawrocki <s.nawrocki@...sung.com>,
	Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu.vizoso@...labora.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/1] clkdev: change prototype of clk_register_clkdev()

On Wed, 2015-05-06 at 12:09 +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Wed, May 06, 2015 at 01:24:12PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > Since clk_register_clkdev() is exported for modules the caller should get a
> > pointer to the allocated resources. Otherwise the memory leak is guaranteed on
> > the ->remove() stage.
> 
> clk_register_clkdev() is there to assist mass clock registrations, which
> typically happen in platform code.  It's there to simplify the "I need
> to register this clock which I'm not going to release again".
> 
> I don't see any of these locations trying to unregister their clk from
> clkdev, so I doubt this patch is needed.

We are doing the driver which will use this (as I mentioned in the cover
letter).

> 
> Where a module wants to remove its clk from clkdev, it should register
> its clk with clkdev_create() and remove it with clkdev_drop().
> 

You are talking about something in the wild? I can't find
clkdev_create() neither in current clk.git nor in linux-next.git.

Otherwise we have (and there are places with same case) to use
clkdev_alloc() + clkdev_add() which is few lines more of code.


-- 
Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...el.com>
Intel Finland Oy

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