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

Russell King - ARM Linux linux at arm.linux.org.uk
Tue Feb 11 10:04:38 EST 2014


On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 03:08:06PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Tuesday 11 February 2014, 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.
> 
> I think the best solution for this is to continue with anonymous clocks
> rather than adding names after the fact. This could be done (for DT-only
> drivers) using the of_clk_get() interface that takes an index, or
> we could add a generic dev_clk_get_index() or similar interface that
> has the same behavior but also works for clkdev.

Mixing devm_* and non-devm_* interfaces doesn't work.  If you want to do
that, devm_of_clk_get() would be a prerequisit.

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