linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v6 00/54] MediaTek clocks: full module build and cleanups

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Message-ID: <6c52bcda08b62593c541d52e269d3982.sboyd@kernel.org>
Date:   Mon, 13 Mar 2023 16:22:52 -0700
From:   Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...nel.org>
To:     AngeloGioacchino Del Regno 
        <angelogioacchino.delregno@...labora.com>, mturquette@...libre.com
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 00/54] MediaTek clocks: full module build and cleanups

Quoting AngeloGioacchino Del Regno (2023-03-06 06:04:49)
> 
> This huge series adds more cleanups on top, reducing size and adding more
> commonization for clock drivers probe/remove, which also includes a new
> common probe mechanism for multimedia clock drivers that are usually
> probed by mtk-mmsys instead of a dt clock node: thanks to this, it was
> finally possible to convert almost all clock drivers to the common probe
> mechanism, which *finally again* makes us able to build all these drivers
> as modules!
> 
> Since this looked like being *the* way forward, I went on converting some
> more drivers away from OF_CLK_DECLARE_DRIVER to full platform_driver(s),
> allowing for more (actually, almost all!) drivers to be built as modules.
> 
> While at it, I also added some more consistency in macros usage by
> removing all of the duplicated full macro declaration for MediaTek gate
> clocks and replacing all of those with using the GATE_MTK macro instead,
> producing a nice reduction in amount of lines per file but, more
> importantly, improving readability and eventual future batch changes.
> 
> This amount of commonization will also, in my opinion, greatly improve
> the review process for new clock drivers, as they will be mostly just a
> list of clocks and won't contain much new code, as it's all going to be
> handled in the common places, which also reduces chances to see new clock
> driver related bugs emerging on one SoC or the other.
> 
> Since I don't own devices with all of the supported MediaTek SoCs, I
> could not test some of the conversions on real hardware... but I am
> confident that this will work as the drivers are *very* similar on a
> per-generation basis.
> 
> This series was build-tested for all (both module and built-in build)
> and was manually tested on MT6795, MT8173, MT8192, MT8195.
> 

Applied the whole series to clk-next.