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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/2] clk: Move init fields from clk to clk_hw
On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 03:17:10AM -0700, Saravana Kannan wrote:
>
> On Tue, March 20, 2012 2:40 am, Sascha Hauer wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 12:54:55AM -0700, Saravana Kannan wrote:
> >>
> > I am using these functions and don't need a static array, I just call
> > the functions with the desired parameters.
>
> Sure, then let's leave it in. Curious, where do you get the desired
> parameters from? Is it static date in code or is it from DT? You somehow
> probe it?

It's not from DT. See this thread:

http://www.spinics.net/lists/arm-kernel/msg165839.html

>
> > Overall the clock framework was written in a way that we have to expose
> > as little information about the internally used structs as necessary. It
> > seems your patches are pulling in the opposite direction now.
>
> I'm not exposing anything that you don't already pass from the platform
> driver. Also, you realize that this is very similar to what you suggested
> with clk_initializer right? If there is a strong push, we can make a copy
> of these inside the struct clk, but for these few init fields I don't see
> a point (see earlier email).

The difference is that a struct clk_initializer is only used to
initialize a clock and not actively used by the clock framework. But as
you already mentioned using a copy inside the clock framework has the
same effect.

Sascha

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