Re: [PATCH] clk: add api to get clk consummer from clk_hw

[Jerome Brunet]

On Wed 27 May 2020 at 22:07, Martin Blumenstingl <martin.blumenstingl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Jerome,
>
> On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 7:09 PM Jerome Brunet <jbrunet@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> [...]
>> + * Calls to this function must be balanced with calls clk_put()
>> + */
>> +struct clk *clk_hw_get_clk(struct clk_hw *hw)
> I haven't looked at it myself yet, but would it be hard to have a
> devm_ variant of this function as well?

Seems easy enough.
Stephen is this OK with you ?

I'm just wondering if this devm_ function should use the device pointer
embedded in the clk_hw structure or have it as an argument ?

The 1st option seems simpler but I'm not sure it is correct.

Thoughts ?

> a non-devm managed function would add boilerplate to the meson-mx-sdhc-mmc code
>
> also this may or may not simplify how to fetch the struct device
> pointer for this use-case.
> (that said, I only know about drivers for Amlogic related IP and there
> the devm_ variant can be used, but I don't know about other potential
> consumers of this new API)
>
>
> Thank you!
> Martin