linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 3/5] clk: lochnagar: Add support for the Cirrus Logic Lochnagar

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Date:   Fri, 12 Oct 2018 18:52:41 +0200
From:   Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:     Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...nel.org>
Cc:     Charles Keepax <ckeepax@...nsource.cirrus.com>,
        lee.jones@...aro.org, linus.walleij@...aro.org,
        mturquette@...libre.com, robh+dt@...nel.org, mark.rutland@....com,
        lgirdwood@...il.com, devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, patches@...nsource.cirrus.com,
        linux-clk@...r.kernel.org, linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/5] clk: lochnagar: Add support for the Cirrus Logic
 Lochnagar

On Thu, Oct 11, 2018 at 12:36:22PM -0700, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> Quoting Mark Brown (2018-10-11 07:54:22)
> > On Thu, Oct 11, 2018 at 12:00:46AM -0700, Stephen Boyd wrote:

> > > Is this used for anything besides getting the regmap? Can you get the
> > > pointer to the parent in probe and use that to get the regmap pointer
> > > from dev_get_remap() and also use the of_node of the parent to register

> > dev_get_regmap() is pretty expensive, I'd not advise using it in
> > anything that might approximate a fast path.  It's kind of debatable
> > when I2C gets involved but still feels wrong.

> I'm suggesting the regmap is acquired in probe and a pointer is stored
> here in this structure. That is not a fastpath as far as I know.

Ah, great - that's the intended usage.

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