Re: [PATCH 5/5] clk: sprd: add clocks support for SC9863A

[Chunyan Zhang <zhang.lyra@gmail.com>]

On Mon, 25 Nov 2019 at 09:33, Stephen Boyd <sboyd@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> Quoting Chunyan Zhang (2019-11-17 03:27:15)
> >
> > Not sure if I understand correctly - do you mean that switch to use a
> > reference to clk_parent_data.hw in the driver instead?
> > like:
> > https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v5.4-rc7/source/drivers/clk/qcom/gcc-sm8150.c#L136
> >
>
> Yes something like that.
>
> > Since if I have to define many clk_parent_data.fw_name strings
> > instead, it seems not able to reduce the code size, right?
>
> Ideally there are some internal only clks that can be linked to their

If the *internal* clks should be in the same base address, then we
have many external clks as parents, since most of our clks are not
located according to modules which clks serve, but according to clk
type.

> parent with a single clk_hw pointer. That will hopefully keep the size

Since all clks used for a chip are defined in the same driver file, I
actually can use clk_hw pointer directly, that will cut down the size
of this driver code, and also easier for users to look for parents for
one clk (only need to look at driver file).

But not sure if you aggree this way?

> down somewhat. And if there are any external clks, they can be described
> in DT and then only the .fw_name field can be used and the fallback
> field .name can be left assigned to NULL.

Yes, I noticed that. But I still need to add many .fw_name, that will
not be a small count.

Thanks,
Chunyan