linux-kernel - Re: [alsa-devel] [PATCH v3 2/2] ASoC: imx-wm8962: Fix codec

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Date:   Tue, 28 Mar 2017 16:42:38 +0100
From:   Charles Keepax <ckeepax@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com>
To:     Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
CC:     Daniel Baluta <daniel.baluta@...il.com>,
        Daniel Baluta <daniel.baluta@....com>,
        Nicolin Chen <nicoleotsuka@...il.com>,
        <alsa-devel@...a-project.org>, Timur Tabi <timur@...i.org>,
        <Xiubo.Lee@...il.com>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@...il.com>,
        Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.com>, <fabio.estevam@....com>,
        <linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org>
Subject: Re: [alsa-devel] [PATCH v3 2/2] ASoC: imx-wm8962: Fix codec_clk
 cleanup

On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 04:24:57PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 12:53:06PM +0100, Charles Keepax wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 01:47:04PM +0300, Daniel Baluta wrote:
> 
> > > >> -     codec_clk = devm_clk_get(&codec_dev->dev, NULL);
> > > >> +     codec_clk = clk_get(&codec_dev->dev, NULL);
> 
> > > is different from &codec_dev->dev.
> 
> > I get that they are different, I just don't get why changing
> > from a devm_clk_get to a clk_get is a better fix than changing
> > &codec->dev to &pdev->dev.
> 
> This should be clear from the semantics of clk_get(): you're looking up
> the clock in the context of the supplied device and the clock is
> attached to the CODEC so you need to look up in the CODEC context.  What
> would be even better would be to move the allocation of the clock into
> the CODEC driver...

Ah yes thats what I was missing.

Thanks,
Charles