linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v9 5/9] clk: mmp: Add Marvell PXA1908 clock driver

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Message-ID: <d7ff7dd609cd1b9a50e5ffa882d05b90.sboyd@kernel.org>
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2024 15:24:42 -0700
From: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...nel.org>
To: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>, Conor Dooley <conor+dt@...nel.org>, Duje Mihanović <duje.mihanovic@...le.hr>, Guilherme G. Piccoli <gpiccoli@...lia.com>, Haojian Zhuang <haojian.zhuang@...aro.org>, Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>, Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski+dt@...aro.org>, Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>, Lubomir Rintel <lkundrak@...sk>, Michael Turquette <mturquette@...libre.com>, Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>, Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>, Tony Lindgren <tony@...mide.com>, Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>, Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 5/9] clk: mmp: Add Marvell PXA1908 clock driver

Quoting Duje Mihanović (2024-04-19 07:31:14)
> On Friday, April 12, 2024 4:57:09 AM GMT+2 Stephen Boyd wrote:
> > Quoting Duje Mihanović (2024-04-11 03:15:34)
> > 
> > > On 4/11/2024 10:00 AM, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> > > > Is there a reason this file can't be a platform driver?
> > > 
> > > Not that I know of, I did it like this only because the other in-tree
> > > MMP clk drivers do so. I guess the initialization should look like any
> > > of the qcom GCC drivers then?
> > 
> > Yes.
> 
> With the entire clock driver code in one file this is quite messy as I also 
> needed to add module_init and module_exit functions to (un)register each 
> platform driver, presumably because the module_platform_driver macro doesn't 
> work with multiple platform drivers in one module. If I split up the driver 
> code for each clock controller block into its own file (such as clk-of-
> pxa1908-apbc.c) as I believe is the best option, should the commits be split 
> up accordingly as well?

Sure. Why is 'of' in the name? Maybe that is unnecessary?

> 
> > > While at it, do you think the other MMP clk drivers could use a 
> conversion?
> > 
> > I'm a little wary if the conversion cannot be tested though.
> 
> I'd rather leave it to someone with the hardware then, especially since the 
> only reason I found out about the above is that the board I'm working on 
> failed to boot completely without the module_init function.
> 

Ok, sounds fine.