Re: [RFC PATCH] clk: samsung: add support for multiple clock providers

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On Monday 02 of December 2013 20:19:52 Rahul Sharma wrote:
> Thanks Tomasz,
> 
> On 2 December 2013 19:39, Tomasz Figa <t.figa@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi Rahul,
> >
> > On Monday 02 of December 2013 11:25:16 Rahul Sharma wrote:
> >> Samsung CCF helper functions doesn't provide support to
> >> register multiple Clock Providers for a given SoC. Due to
> >> this limitation soc platforms are not able to use these
> >> helpers for registering multiple clock providers and forced
> >> to bypass this layer.
> >
> > This might make sense indeed, but I don't see any use cases for it
> > at the moment. Do you have anything in particular in mind?
> >
> 
> We had 2 clock providers (cmu and audss ) in 5420. In 5260, we had
> 12 CMUs (top, egl, kfc, aud ...) which are physically independent and
> mapped at non-contiguous phy-addresses. I am going to post the basic
> patch set to add support for 5260 including clock file, which based on the
> following RFC patch.

OK, thanks for the explanation. So I guess support for the SoC itself
is coming to the mainline too?

> 
> > Also this is somehow ugly to require passing device_node to every function
> > even when DT is not used. Instead, I would make samsung_clk_init() return
> > the context pointer, which would be then passed to other functions. This
> > would also eliminate the need to add private infrastructure mapping nodes
> > into context pointers.
> >
> 
> yea correct. Sounds better. I will change it as you suggested.

OK.

> 
> > One more thing is the name of clk_provider_context struct. It sounds too
> > generic for a Samsung specific structure. IMHO samsung_clk_provider would
> > be much better.
> 
> I named it simple as it is already defined in samsung/clk.c.
> samsung_clk_provider
> also seems good to me.

OK.

Best regards,
Tomasz

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