[PATCH v3 04/12] clk: Add regmap core helpers for enable/disable/is_enabled

[Gerhard Sittig]

On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 20:50 -0800, Mike Turquette wrote:
> 
> Adding all of this stuff to struct clk_hw makes me a sad panda. You are
> essentially sharing a common set of ops for clocks that use regmap as
> their io operation back-end, and that is a good thing.
> 
> However, why not just do this as drivers/clk/clk-regmap.c, or
> drivers/clk/clk-gate-regmap.c? Putting the clk_ops callback functions in
> drivers/clk/clk.c is a little weird and putting those struct members
> into struct clk_hw is definitely strange.

Wasn't the idea to extend the set of register accessor routines
in <linux/clk-provider.h> such that memory mapped I/O as well as
regmap style becomes possible?  This is what I understood from
past iterations of discussing this approach.

I agree that duplicating the clock gate's implementation just to
access the register in a different way feels strange and somehow
unfortunate.

There still may be the issue of expensive operations only being
allowed within prepare and unprepare, while enable and disable
are supposed to be "cheap and straight forward", and should not
block and thus may not use external communication.  But that
appears to be orthogonal to the API which wraps register access.


virtually yours
Gerhard Sittig
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