Hi Prabhakar,
On Thursday 28 March 2013 15:36:11 Prabhakar Lad wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 2:39 PM, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> > On Thursday 28 March 2013 14:20:32 Prabhakar lad wrote:
> >> From: Lad, Prabhakar <prabhakar.csengg@xxxxxxxxx>
> >>
> >> Add pm_runtime support to the TI Davinci VPIF driver.
> >> Along side this patch replaces clk_get() with devm_clk_get()
> >> to simplify the error handling.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Lad, Prabhakar <prabhakar.csengg@xxxxxxxxx>
> >> ---
> >>
> >> drivers/media/platform/davinci/vpif.c | 21 +++++++++++----------
> >> 1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/drivers/media/platform/davinci/vpif.c
> >> b/drivers/media/platform/davinci/vpif.c index 28638a8..7d14625 100644
> >> --- a/drivers/media/platform/davinci/vpif.c
> >> +++ b/drivers/media/platform/davinci/vpif.c
[snip]
> >> @@ -439,12 +440,17 @@ static int vpif_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> >> goto fail;
> >> }
> >>
> >> - vpif_clk = clk_get(&pdev->dev, "vpif");
> >> + vpif_clk = devm_clk_get(&pdev->dev, "vpif");
> >> if (IS_ERR(vpif_clk)) {
> >> status = PTR_ERR(vpif_clk);
> >> goto clk_fail;
> >> }
> >>
> >> - clk_prepare_enable(vpif_clk);
> >> + clk_put(vpif_clk);
> >
> > Why do you need to call clk_put() here ?
>
> The above check is to see if the clock is provided, once done
> we free it using clk_put().
In that case you shouldn't use devm_clk_get(), otherwise clk_put() will be
called again automatically at remove() time.
> >> + pm_runtime_enable(&pdev->dev);
> >> + pm_runtime_resume(&pdev->dev);
> >> +
> >> + pm_runtime_get(&pdev->dev);
> >
> > Does runtime PM automatically handle your clock ? If so can't you remove
> > clock handling from the driver completely ?
>
> Yes pm runtime take care of enabling/disabling the clocks
> so that we don't have to do it in drivers. I believe clock
> handling is removed with this patch, with just devm_clk_get() remaining ;)
When is the clk_get() call expected to fail ? If the clock is provided by the
SoC and always available, can't the check be removed completely ?
--
Regards,
Laurent Pinchart
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