[RFC,PATCH 1/2] Add a common struct clk

[Ryan Mallon]

Ben Dooks wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 03, 2010 at 11:21:19AM +0800, Jeremy Kerr wrote:
>> Hi Ben,
>>
>>>> And a set of clock operations (defined per type of clock):
>>>>
>>>> struct clk_operations {
>>>>
>>>>        int             (*enable)(struct clk *);
>>> I'd rather the enable/disable calls where simply a set
>>> and a bool on/off, very rarelyt is the enable and disable
>>> operartions different.
>> I thought about merging these, but decided against it. It does work for the 
>> simple case where we're setting a bit in a register:
>>
>> static int clk_foo_set_state(struct clk *_clk, int enable)
>> {
>> 	struct clk_foo *clk = to_clk_foo(_clk)
>> 	u32 reg;
>>
>> 	reg = raw_readl(foo->some_register);
>> 	if (enable)
>> 		reg |= FOO_ENABLE;
>> 	else
>> 		reg &= ~FOO_ENABLE;
>> 	raw_writel(foo->some_register, reg);
>>
>> 	return 0;
>> }
>>
>> However, for anything more complex than this - for example, if there's a 
>> parent clock - then we start getting pretty messy:
>>
>> static int clk_foo_set_state(struct clk *_clk, int enable)
>> {
>> 	struct clk_foo *clk = to_clk_foo(_clk)
>> 	u32 reg;
> 
> Yuck. I think this should really be handled by the base clk_enable()
> and clk_disable() calls. Roughly based on what is currently in the
> plat-samsung clock implementation:

I think its a good idea to do this incrementally. The proposed patches
don't require much code rewrite because the interface is basically the
same. I think the best approach is to get the proposed patches applied,
which basically just makes the common interface from
include/linux/clock.h generic, and _all_ of the mach implementations
(and possibly other archs such as powerpc) converted and tested first.
Then we can go from there to see what other common functionality can be
moved into the generic clock framework.

~Ryan

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