linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/7] clk: add helper functions for managing clk_onecell

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Date:   Fri, 16 Mar 2018 15:29:13 -0700
From:   Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...nel.org>
To:     David Lechner <david@...hnology.com>, linux-clk@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     David Lechner <david@...hnology.com>,
        Michael Turquette <mturquette@...libre.com>,
        Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...eaurora.org>,
        Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@...il.com>,
        Heiko Stuebner <heiko@...ech.de>,
        Emilio López <emilio@...pez.com.ar>,
        Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@...e-electrons.com>,
        Chen-Yu Tsai <wens@...e.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-mediatek@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-rockchip@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] clk: add helper functions for managing clk_onecell_data

Quoting David Lechner (2018-01-04 16:38:05)
> I am writing some clock drivers that use struct clk_onecell_data a few
> times, so I decided to write a helper function to allocate the memory
> since it is a two step process and can be tedious. Then I noticed that
> mediatek already had such a helper function, so I have moved that to the
> clk core and made use of it in other drivers where possible.
> 

We're actively trying to discourage driver authors from adding more
clk_onecell_data and pushing them to register clks and providers with
the clk_hw structures. So thanks for doing the consolidation work, but
no thanks. We can wait for the conversion to hw pointers instead.