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

Stefan Wahren stefan.wahren at i2se.com
Wed Sep 14 11:09:04 PDT 2022


Am 14.09.22 um 20:05 schrieb Stephen Boyd:
> 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'?
yes



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