Re: of_clk_add_(hw_)providers multipule times for one node?

[Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>]

On Sun, Aug 7, 2016 at 6:54 PM, Masahiro Yamada
<yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> wrote:
> 2016-08-05 6:25 GMT+09:00 Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>:
>> +Rob in case he has any insight
>>
>> On 07/09, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
>>> I think the current code allows to add
>>> clk_providers multiple times against one DT node.
>>>
>>> Are there cases that really need to do so?
>>
>> If we have clk drivers that have a device driver structure and
>> also use CLK_OF_DECLARE then we could get into a situation where
>> they register two providers for the same device node. I can't
>> think of any other situation where this would happen though.
>
> What is the benefit for splitting one clock device
> into CLK_OF_DECLARE() and a platform_driver?

It may be useful if you want to provide a few clocks very early in the boot
(through CLK_OF_DECLARE()), and the remaining ones later (through the
platform_driver).

> If we go this way, I think we need to fix the current code.
>
> of_clk_add_provider() calls of_clk_del_provider()
> in its failure path.
>
> Notice of_clk_del_provider() unregister
> all the providers associated with the device node.
>
> So, if of_clk_add_provider() fails to register a platform driver,
> it may unregister another provider added by OF_CLK_DECLARE().

Do you have to call of_clk_add_provider() from the platform driver?
Can't you just populate the missing entries in the clk_onecell_data as
registered from the CLK_OF_DECLARE() driver part?

Alternatively, if there's a clear (non-Linux specific, as this affects DT!)
distinction between the two sets of clocks, you could register your own
twocell_get routine from CLK_OF_DELCARE(), and fill in a second
(third, fourth, ...) set of clocks from the platform_driver.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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