linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] mmc: sdhci-npcm: Add NPCM SDHCI driver

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Date:   Fri, 17 Mar 2023 19:36:31 +0200
From:   Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>
To:     Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
Cc:     Tomer Maimon <tmaimon77@...il.com>, ulf.hansson@...aro.org,
        avifishman70@...il.com, tali.perry1@...il.com, joel@....id.au,
        venture@...gle.com, yuenn@...gle.com, benjaminfair@...gle.com,
        adrian.hunter@...el.com, skhan@...uxfoundation.org,
        davidgow@...gle.com, pbrobinson@...il.com, gsomlo@...il.com,
        briannorris@...omium.org, arnd@...db.de, krakoczy@...micro.com,
        openbmc@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-mmc@...r.kernel.org,
        devicetree@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] mmc: sdhci-npcm: Add NPCM SDHCI driver

On Fri, Mar 17, 2023 at 4:16 PM Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Dec 05, 2022 at 10:53:51AM +0200, Tomer Maimon wrote:
> > Add Nuvoton NPCM BMC sdhci-pltfm controller driver.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Tomer Maimon <tmaimon77@...il.com>
>
> I still don't see this driver in the upstream kernel, or in linux-next.
>
> Couple of comments:
>
> - devm ordering does not really matter here. The devm resource
>   is the clock, it does not depend on local data, and it will be
>   released last, so that is ok.

Not sure. Strictly speaking this is the problem. If you leave a clock
going on in a wrong period of time it (theoretically) might break your
hardware once and forever. Similar discussion about power, clock and
reset signals has been held for camera sensors.

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko