[PATCH 2/2] ARM: imx6q: replace clk_register_clkdev with clock DT lookup

Shawn Guo shawn.guo at linaro.org
Wed Aug 22 05:27:29 EDT 2012


On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 09:32:23AM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 08:11:57AM -0500, Rob Herring wrote:
> > On 08/21/2012 07:27 AM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> > > So now, you're not dealing with inventing a whole load of names for clocks
> > > on a platform, instead what you're doing is describing _where_ the clock
> > > comes from in the system for a particular device by device node and index
> > > into it - just like we do for interrupts.
> > 
> > That is what we're doing. The names are optional for DT, but happen to
> > be required for struct clk now. If we don't put something in DT, then
> > the clock names will have to be something generic like ccm-1..ccm-185.
> 
> And that's what's wrong.  Clocks themselves should _not_ be required to
> be named.
> 
> If you use purely "producer node + index" then you don't need to name a
> whole bunch of clocks, and you don't need to have an array of clock names
> in the DT file.  This also gets rid of the time consuming strcmp against
> every clock, which has already been raised as a problem with the existing
> clk_get().
> 
Ok, if I got your point correctly, it's about amending the following
changes, and then we can get rid of that big clock-output-names list
from dts.

Regards,
Shawn

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diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-imx/clk-imx6q.c b/arch/arm/mach-imx/clk-imx6q.c
index 433c683..d52f3f4 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mach-imx/clk-imx6q.c
+++ b/arch/arm/mach-imx/clk-imx6q.c
@@ -387,7 +387,7 @@ int __init mx6q_clocks_init(void)
                        pr_err("i.MX6q clk %d: register failed with %ld\n",
                                i, PTR_ERR(clk[i]));

-       of_clk_add_provider(np, of_clk_src_onecell_get, NULL);
+       of_clk_add_provider(np, of_clk_src_onecell_get, clk);

        clk_register_clkdev(clk[gpt_ipg], "ipg", "imx-gpt.0");
        clk_register_clkdev(clk[gpt_ipg_per], "per", "imx-gpt.0");
diff --git a/drivers/clk/clk.c b/drivers/clk/clk.c
index 06bc0b5..a010ed6 100644
--- a/drivers/clk/clk.c
+++ b/drivers/clk/clk.c
@@ -1584,16 +1584,10 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(of_clk_src_simple_get);

 struct clk *of_clk_src_onecell_get(struct of_phandle_args *clkspec, void *data)
 {
-       const char *clk_name;
+       struct clk **clks = data;
        int idx = clkspec->args[0];
-       int ret;
-
-       ret = of_property_read_string_index(clkspec->np, "clock-output-names",
-                                           idx, &clk_name);
-       if (ret < 0)
-               return ERR_PTR(ret);

-       return __clk_lookup(clk_name);
+       return clks[idx];
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(of_clk_src_onecell_get);



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