[PATCH v5 6/7] clk: Make clk API return per-user struct clk instances

Stephen Boyd sboyd at codeaurora.org
Thu Nov 13 23:06:46 PST 2014


On 10/30, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
> Moves clock state to struct clk_core, but takes care to change as little API as
> possible.
> 
> struct clk_hw still has a pointer to a struct clk, which is the
> implementation's per-user clk instance, for backwards compatibility.
> 
> The struct clk that clk_get_parent() returns isn't owned by the caller, but by
> the clock implementation, so the former shouldn't call clk_put() on it.
> 
> Because some boards in mach-omap2 still register clocks statically, their clock
> registration had to be updated to take into account that the clock information
> is stored in struct clk_core now.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu.vizoso at collabora.com>

It would be good to have Russell at least ack the clkdev bits.
There's still more work to do in the future here, but

Reviewed-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd at codeaurora.org>

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