Re: [PATCH 01/18] regmap: mmio: Add function to attach a clock

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On Mon, Jul 17, 2017 at 11:01:07AM +0200, Maxime Ripard wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 05:01:42PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:

> > > This might be problematic if the clock to enable is stored in another node.
> > > Let's add a function that allows to attach a clock that has already been
> > > retrieved to a regmap in order to fix this.

> > What is the use case for this?

> This is useful when the clock you want to be handled by the regmap is
> not described in the device node that probed the driver, but one of
> its subnode, or an another node entirely.

> We're in the latter case, where we have two controllers in the DT, but
> are driven by the same driver. We'll create two regmaps, but one will
> not have the proper of_node used to retrieve the clock.

I'm sorry but I'm still not seeing why you're doing this.  Can you be
more concrete please?

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