[PATCH v1 2/7] clk: bcm: rpi: Add a function to retrieve the maximum

Stephen Boyd sboyd at kernel.org
Wed Sep 14 11:05:06 PDT 2022


Quoting Stefan Wahren (2022-09-14 10:45:48)
> Am 14.09.22 um 17:50 schrieb Stephen Boyd:
> >
> > Furthermore, I wonder if even that part needs to be implemented.  Why
> > not make a direct call to rpi_firmware_property() and get the max rate?
> > All of that can live in the drm driver. Making it a generic API that
> > takes a 'struct clk' means that it looks like any clk can be passed,
> > when that isn't true. It would be better to restrict it to the one use
> > case so that the scope of the problem doesn't grow. I understand that it
> > duplicates a few lines of code, but that looks like a fair tradeoff vs.
> > exposing an API that can be used for other clks in the future.
> it would be nice to keep all the Rpi specific stuff out of the DRM 
> driver, since there more users of it.

Instead of 'all' did you mean 'any'?



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