linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] i2c: designware: register clkdev during acpi device configuration

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Message-ID: <1445421002.2977.14.camel@kxue-X58A-UD3R>
Date:	Wed, 21 Oct 2015 17:50:02 +0800
From:	Ken Xue <Ken.Xue@....com>
To:	Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@...ux.intel.com>
CC:	<baruch@...s.co.il>, <SPG_Linux_Kernel@....com>,
	<linux-i2c@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	<stable@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] i2c: designware: register clkdev during acpi device
 configuration

On Wed, 2015-10-21 at 12:49 +0300, Mika Westerberg wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 05:37:53PM +0800, Ken Xue wrote:
> > On Wed, 2015-10-21 at 12:25 +0300, Mika Westerberg wrote:
> > > On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 04:42:23PM +0800, Ken Xue wrote:
> > > > On Wed, 2015-10-21 at 10:28 +0300, Mika Westerberg wrote:
> > > > > On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 09:11:33AM +0800, Ken Xue wrote:
> > > > > > On Tue, 2015-10-20 at 14:17 +0300, Mika Westerberg wrote:
> > > > > > > On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 02:38:01PM +0800, Ken Xue wrote:
> > > > > > > > DW I2C driver tries to register a clk from id->driver_data as an
> > > > > > > > alternative way besides intel lpss. But code doesn't register the
> > > > > > > > clk to clkdev. So, devm_clk_get will fail during probe.
> > > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > > The patch can fix this issue.
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > Since you now have drivers/acpi/acpi_apd.c for AMD ACPI stuff, can you
> > > > > > > create the clock there just like we do for Intel stuff?
> > > > > > Sure. APD already creates the clock for AMD0010 as you expected. And the
> > > > > > next patch([PATCH 2/2] i2c: designware: remove freq definition for
> > > > > > "AMD0010" in acpi_device_id) is dropping the old way for getting freq.
> > > > > 
> > > > > So this patch is not necessary, right?
> > > > Even though there is no use case that getting freq from id->driver_data,
> > > > But if we want to keep this design, then we should use current patch for
> > > > fixing the potential issue. So, the patch is nice to have.
> > > 
> > > What potential issue?
> > devm_clk_get will fail during probe for AMD0010 without current patch.
> 
> How can it fail if you provide the very clock from drivers/acpi/acpi_apd.c?
After apd was accept in kernel V4.1, there is no issue. But between 3.18
and V4.1, there will be a problem.

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