Re: [PATCH 02/14] clk: Create of_clk_shared_by_cpus()

[Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>]

On 1 July 2014 23:30, Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org> wrote:
> On 07/01/14 09:32, Viresh Kumar wrote:
>> Create a new routine of_clk_shared_by_cpus() that finds if clock lines are
>> shared between two CPUs. This is verified by comparing "clocks" property from
>> CPU's DT node.
>>
>> Returns 1 if clock line is shared between them, 0 if clock isn't shared and
>> return appropriate errors in case nodes/properties are missing.
>>
>> Cc: Mike Turquette <mturquette@linaro.org>
>> Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
>> ---
>>  drivers/clk/clk.c   | 56 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>  include/linux/clk.h |  6 ++++++
>
> This doesn't make much sense to me. This function doesn't deal with
> struct clk pointers or any of the internals of the common clock
> framework so why put it in clk.c? It looks more like an internal
> function that the cpufreq-generic driver should have.

I thought this is what Rob suggested when he said:
"I think a clock api function would be better."

I had it in cpufreq-cpu0 driver earlier and moved it to a separate API
yesterday only.

Sorry if I misunderstood his comment.