[PATCH 4/7] spi: pl022: attempt to get sspclk by name

Mark Rutland mark.rutland at arm.com
Tue Feb 11 08:39:32 EST 2014


On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 12:06:45PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 11:37:09AM +0000, Mark Rutland wrote:
> 
> > -	pl022->clk = devm_clk_get(&adev->dev, NULL);
> > +	/*
> > +	 * For compatibility with old DTBs and platform data, fall back to the
> > +	 * first clock if there's not an explicitly named "sspclk" entry.
> > +	 */
> > +	pl022->clk = devm_clk_get(&adev->dev, "sspclk");
> > +	if (IS_ERR(pl022->clk))
> > +		pl022->clk = devm_clk_get(&adev->dev, NULL);
> > +
> 
> I'll just have a bit of a grumble here and point out that this sort of
> stuff always worries me with the convention of using nameless clocks -
> it causes hassle adding further clocks.
>
> In any case you didn't CC me on the cover letter or any of the non-SPI
> patches so I'm not sure what the dependencies are here (if there are
> any), does the series need to go in as one?

Apologies for missing you for the cover letter (you can find a copy in
the lakml archive [1]).

The SPI patches don't depend on the rest of the series, but given
Russell's comments on the cover [2] this will probably need a v2 anyway.
I'll ensure you're Cc'd.

Cheers,
Mark.

[1] http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2014-February/231572.html
[2] http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2014-February/231594.html



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