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Date:   Wed, 29 Mar 2017 12:47:52 +0100
From:   Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:     Daniel Baluta <daniel.baluta@...il.com>
Cc:     Charles Keepax <ckeepax@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.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 Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 02:38:23PM +0300, Daniel Baluta wrote:

> If I read the code correctly, both machine and codec driver are doing:

> * codec_clk = clk_get(...)

> I guess that the codec driver is the first to be loaded and it will call:

> * __clk_create_clk

> which will do the allocation. Then when machine driver is loaded, it
> will only take a reference to the allocated clock.

> I might be very wrong on this. Can you clarify what does moving allocation
> of the clock into codec driver implies? Machine driver only needs a reference
> to codec_clk to just get the clock's rate.

Oh, so the CODEC is already requesting the clock.  Then what I'm saying
is work out a way to use the handle to the clock that the CODEC driver
created.  In effect the machine driver is telling the CODEC driver to do
things with the input clock.

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