[RFC PATCH] clk: add extension API

[Felipe Balbi]

On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 10:51:25AM +0300, Peter De Schrijver wrote:
> On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 10:52:31AM +0200, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> > On 5/29/2012 2:58 AM, Peter De Schrijver wrote:
> > > Add an extension API for clocks. This allows clocktypes to provide extensions
> > > for features which are uncommon and cannot be easily mapped onto normal clock
> > > framework concecpts. eg: resetting blocks, configuring clock phase etc.
> > 
> > This seems rather generic. Why not add more specific APIs/concepts like
> > clk_reset(), clk_set_phase(), etc.? If they don't map, maybe we should
> > make them map.
> > 
> 
> Some of those might be very SoC specific. Eg OMAP doesn't need software
> controlled modulereset. I don't think we should add a new function to the

it depends on what you call modulereset. We have soft-reset logic hidden
under the hood, it's done before device creation, so drivers (most of
them) assume we're probe with the IP in reset state.

What I wonder most is if this should be done at the clock level or at
the device level. In the end you reset the IP block, not the clock,
right ?

> clock framework for clock related features which only exist in a single
> SoC or family. Ideally we could use inheritance to add methods to derived
> clocktypes, but that's not really possible in C unfortunately.

Well, it can be done... in a weird manner, but it can:

struct my_new_clk {
	struct clk	clk;

	int		(*reset)(struct my_new_clk *m);
};

int clk_reset(struct clk *clk)
{
	strut my_new_clk	*m = container_of(clk, struct my_new_clk, clk);

	return m->reset(m);
}

it doesn't look pretty, but it can be done.

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balbi
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