linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 03/23] clk: mediatek: clk-gate: Propagate struct device with mtk_clk_register

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:   Mon, 26 Dec 2022 15:05:05 +0800
From:   Chen-Yu Tsai <wenst@...omium.org>
To:     AngeloGioacchino Del Regno 
        <angelogioacchino.delregno@...labora.com>
Cc:     mturquette@...libre.com, sboyd@...nel.org, matthias.bgg@...il.com,
        robh+dt@...nel.org, krzysztof.kozlowski+dt@...aro.org,
        johnson.wang@...iatek.com, miles.chen@...iatek.com,
        fparent@...libre.com, chun-jie.chen@...iatek.com,
        sam.shih@...iatek.com, y.oudjana@...tonmail.com,
        nfraprado@...labora.com, rex-bc.chen@...iatek.com,
        ryder.lee@...nel.org, daniel@...rotopia.org,
        jose.exposito89@...il.com, yangyingliang@...wei.com,
        pablo.sun@...iatek.com, msp@...libre.com, weiyi.lu@...iatek.com,
        ikjn@...omium.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-clk@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-mediatek@...ts.infradead.org, devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
        kernel@...labora.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 03/23] clk: mediatek: clk-gate: Propagate struct device
 with mtk_clk_register_gates()

On Fri, Dec 23, 2022 at 5:43 PM AngeloGioacchino Del Regno
<angelogioacchino.delregno@...labora.com> wrote:
>
> Commit e4c23e19aa2a ("clk: mediatek: Register clock gate with device")
> introduces a helper function for the sole purpose of propagating a
> struct device pointer to the clk API when registering the mtk-gate
> clocks to take advantage of Runtime PM when/where needed and where
> a power domain is defined in devicetree.
>
> Function mtk_clk_register_gates() then becomes a wrapper around the
> new mtk_clk_register_gates_with_dev() function that will simply pass
> NULL as struct device: this is essential when registering drivers
> with CLK_OF_DECLARE instead of as a platform device, as there will
> be no struct device to pass... but we can as well simply have only
> one function that always takes such pointer as a param and pass NULL
> when unavoidable.
>
> This commit removes the mtk_clk_register_gates() wrapper and renames
> mtk_clk_register_gates_with_dev() to the former and all of the calls
> to either of the two functions were fixed in all drivers in order to
> reflect this change.
>
> Since a lot of MediaTek clock drivers are actually registering as a
> platform device, but were still registering the mtk-gate clocks
> without passing any struct device to the clock framework, they've
> been changed to pass a valid one now, as to make all those platforms
> able to use runtime power management where available.
>
> Signed-off-by: AngeloGioacchino Del Regno <angelogioacchino.delregno@...labora.com>

Reviewed-by: Chen-Yu Tsai <wenst@...omium.org>

However, I wonder if we could move the |struct device *| paramter to be
the first one? This matches other APIs better, notably the clk_register()
family.

Regards
ChenYu