[PATCH v2 2/3] clk: spacemit: extract common ccu functions

Yao Zi me at ziyao.cc
Mon Dec 29 20:00:34 PST 2025


On Mon, Dec 29, 2025 at 06:50:14PM -0600, Alex Elder wrote:
> On 12/26/25 12:55 AM, Yixun Lan wrote:
> > Refactor the probe function of SpacemiT's clock, and extract a common ccu
> > file, so new clock driver added in the future can share the same code,
> > which would lower the burden of maintenance. Since this commit changes the
> > module name where the auxiliary device registered, the auxiliary device id
> > need to be adjusted. Idea of the patch is come from review of K3 clock
> > driver, please refer this disucssion [1].
> 
> I understand the point here, and it's just like the first patch:
> you're extracting generic code out of the K1-specific file so a
> new K3-specific source file can use it too.  This is really good.
> 
> However the end result should incorporate *only* generic code
> in the generic file, and have the SoC-specific source files
> contain everything else.
> 
> But as you have it now, the (new) generic probe function
> contains special handling for "spacemit,k1-pll", and that's
> not generic.
> 
> So I suggest you still implement k1_ccu_probe() (and k3_ccu_probe())
> separately, allowing each of them to do platform-specific things
> before (and/or after) calling the generic probe function.

I've raised similar concerns in the series for K3 clock tree[1].

Regards,
Yao Zi

[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/aU50DIe9qMneb0GT@pie/



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