On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 05:03:45PM +0200, Sylwester Nawrocki wrote: > This patch adds common __clk_get(), __clk_put() clkdev helpers which > replace their platform specific counterparts when the common clock > API is enabled. > > The owner module pointer field is added to struct clk so a reference > to the clock supplier module can be taken by the clock consumers. > > Signed-off-by: Sylwester Nawrocki <s.nawrocki@xxxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@xxxxxxxxxxx> I'm mostly happy with this now. > +int __clk_get(struct clk *clk) > +{ > + if (clk && !try_module_get(clk->owner)) > + return 0; > + > + return 1; > +} > +EXPORT_SYMBOL(__clk_get); > + > +void __clk_put(struct clk *clk) > +{ > + if (WARN_ON_ONCE(IS_ERR(clk))) > + return; > + > + if (clk) > + module_put(clk->owner); > +} > +EXPORT_SYMBOL(__clk_put); Why are these exported? clkdev can only be built into the kernel, as can the common clk framework - they can't be modular. So why would a module wish to access these directly?