Re: [PATCH 0/5] Implement devm_of_clk_add_provider

From: Ricardo Ribalda Delgado
Date: Fri Nov 02 2018 - 02:55:11 EST


Hi Stephen
On Fri, Nov 2, 2018 at 12:35 AM Stephen Boyd <sboyd@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Quoting Ricardo Ribalda Delgado (2018-11-01 07:40:39)
> > All Tull reported that there might be a great ammount of drivers with
> > imbalance on clk_add_provider. This is an issue for Device tree overlays
> > (and also a bug) https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/10/18/1103
> >
> > This patchset implement a devm_ function of of_clk_add_provider, and
> > fixes 3 drivers.
> >
> > Drivers like clk-gpio will be easily fixed with coccinelle if this set
> > is accepted. (I volunteer, I want to learn how to use it, just seen the
> > great presentations from Julia).
>
> We already have devm_of_clk_add_hw_provider(), so any instances of
> of_clk_add_provider() should be replaced with that, instead of
> propagating the usage of of_clk_add_provider() any further. I'll gladly
> apply patches to convert drivers from struct clk based APIs to struct
> clk_hw based APIs so that we can clearly split clk providers from clk
> consumers. So if you're interested in working on some coccinelle script
> for that it would be great!
>

Will look into that.
Can you take a look to 1/5 of this patchset? I believe that it is
valid even if we do not take 2-5.

Cheers

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Ricardo Ribalda