[PATCH 09/10] clk: dynamically allocate parent_names basic clk registration

[Shawn Guo]

On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 10:55:14AM +0200, Sascha Hauer wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 03:23:28PM +0800, Shawn Guo wrote:
> > It's not necessary to have "char *parent[1]" carried in struct clk_gate
> > and clk_divider.  Instead, it can be dynamically allocated in
> > registration function, just like what clk_register_fixed_rate does.
> 
> I patched it the way it is to get rid of the additional malloc which
> seemed unnecessary. Maybe the real question is whether the core should
> duplicate the parent strings instead of the basic clock types.
> 
If we can ensure the parent strings will only be used during
clk_register call, we do not need to duplicate the parent strings.

But right now the parent strings is used not only in clk_register call
but also __clk_set_parent for finding parent index in case the search
on cached parent points fails.  I guess Mike has a good reason for that.

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Regards,
Shawn