[PATCH 3/6] clk: mediatek: mt8192: Do not re-register top_early_divs in probe function

Miles Chen miles.chen at mediatek.com
Tue Sep 27 18:55:07 PDT 2022


>> top_early_divs are registered in the CLK_OF_DECLARE_DRIVER() half of the
>> topckgen clk driver. Don't try to register it again in the actual probe
>> function. This gets rid of the "Trying to register duplicate clock ..."
>> warning.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Chen-Yu Tsai <wenst at chromium.org>
>
>Can't we simply remove the CLK_OF_DECLARE_DRIVER() and top_init_early entirely,
>and transfer TOP_CSW_F26M_D2 to top_divs[] instead?
>I get that systimer concern and we have something similar in MT8195, where the
>TOP_CLK26M_D2 is registered "late".

Another reason for this:
Removing the CLK_OF_DECLARE_DRIVER() is good when we want to build our driver as
kernel modules because it does not work with kernel modules.

thanks,
Miles
>
>Getting back to MT8192, TOP_CSW_F26M_D2 seems to be used only for:
>1. systimer
>2. SPMI MST (registered "late").
>
>Being it a fixed factor clock, parented to another fixed clock, it doesn't
>even have any ON/OFF switch, so I think it would be actually possible to go
>for the proposed removal... which would further improve this cleanup.
>
>Regards,
>Angelo
>



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