[RFC PATCH 0/3] clk: introduce clk_bulk_get accessories
Dong Aisheng
dongas86 at gmail.com
Mon May 8 04:07:26 PDT 2017
On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 08:04:19PM -0700, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> On 04/12, Dong Aisheng wrote:
> >
> > Together with the err path handling for each clocks, it does make
> > things a bit ugly.
> >
> > Since we already have regulator_bulk_get accessories, i thought we
> > probably could introduce clk_bulk_get as well to handle such case to
> > ease the driver owners' life.
> >
> > Besides IMX cpufreq driver, there is also some similar cases
> > in kernel which could befinit from this api as well.
> > e.g.
> > drivers/cpufreq/tegra124-cpufreq.c
> > drivers/cpufreq/s3c2412-cpufreq.c
> > sound/soc/samsung/smdk_spdif.c
> > arch/arm/mach-omap1/serial.c
> > ...
> >
> > And actually, if we handle clocks more than 3, then it might be
> > worthy to try, which there is quite many manay in kernel and
> > that probably could save a lot codes.
> >
> > This is a RFC patch intending to bring up the idea to discuss.
> >
>
> Idea seems fine to me. Please also add Russell King, as we need
> an ack from him on the clk.h API changes.
>
Great! Thanks! And sorry to miss Russell King.
Quite willing to add him to help review in the next series.
Regards
Dong Aisheng
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