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From: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
To: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Cc: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>,
	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@armlinux.org.uk>,
	Michael Turquette <mturquette@baylibre.com>,
	Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>,
	Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>,
	linux-clk@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] clk: add more managed APIs
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2017 09:20:58 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170131172058.GA15184@roeck-us.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170131005957.GB35974@dtor-ws>

On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 04:59:57PM -0800, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 11:22:14AM -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 10:55:51AM -0800, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> > > On 01/29, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> > > > When converting a driver to managed resources it is desirable to be able to
> > > > manage all resources in the same fashion. This change allows managing
> > > > clocks in the same way we manage many other resources.
> > > 
> > > Can you please add 'managing clock prepared and enabled state in
> > > the same way'?
> > > 
> > > The current wording makes it sound like we don't have
> > > devm_clk_get() when we do.
> > > 
> > > > 
> > > > This adds the following managed APIs:
> > > > 
> > > > - devm_clk_prepare()/devm_clk_unprepare();
> > > > - devm_clk_prepare_enable()/devm_clk_disable_unprepare().
> > > 
> > > Wouldn't this be preceded by a devm_clk_get() call? Wouldn't it
> > > be even shorter to have the APIs
> > > 
> > >   devm_clk_get_and_prepare()/devm_clk_unprepare_and_put()
> > >   devm_clk_get_and_prepare_enable()/devm_clk_disable_unprepare_and_put()
> > > 
> > > instead?
> > > 
> > In many cases I see
> > 
> > 	devm_clk_get(clk1);
> > 	devm_clk_get(clk2);
> > 	clk_prepare_enable(clk1);
> > 	clk_prepare_enable(clk2);
> > 
> > Sometimes the calls are intertwined with setting the clock rates.
> > 
> > 	devm_clk_get(clk);
> > 	clk_set_rate(clk, rate);
> > 	clk_prepare_enable(clk);
> > 
> > Maybe the additional calls make sense; I can imagine they would.
> > However, I personally would be a bit wary of changing the initialization
> > order of multi-clock initializations, and I am not sure how a single call
> > could address setting the rate ([devm_]clk_get_setrate_prepare_enable()
> > seems like a bit too much).
> > 
> > [ On a side note, why is there no clk_get_prepare_enable() and
> >   clk_get_prepare() ? Maybe it would be better to introduce those
> >   together with the matching devm_ functions in a separate patch
> >   if they are useful. ]
> > 
> > > Is there any other subsystem that has similar functionality?
> > > Regulators? GPIOs? Resets? I'm just curious if those subsystems
> > > also need similar changes.
> > > 
> > Ultimately yes, and most already do. If I recall correctly, I tried to
> > introduce devm_ functions for regulators some time ago, but that was
> > rejected with the comment that it would invite misuse.  At the time
> > I accepted that; today my reaction would be to counter that pretty much
> > everything can be misused, and that the potential for misuse should not
> > penaltize all the valid use cases.
> 
> I think we should ping Mark again. The only thing we are achieving is
> that everyone is using devm_add_action_or_reset() with wrappers around
> regulator_put().
> 
regulator_get() has an equivalent devm_regulator_get(). Maybe it was since
added, or I was thinking about a different function.

Guenter

  reply	other threads:[~2017-01-31 17:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-01-28 18:40 [PATCH] clk: add more managed APIs Dmitry Torokhov
2017-01-28 19:03 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2017-01-28 19:22   ` Dmitry Torokhov
2017-01-28 21:44     ` Guenter Roeck
2017-01-28 23:39       ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2017-01-29 16:00         ` Guenter Roeck
2017-01-29 18:07         ` [PATCH v2] " Dmitry Torokhov
2017-01-29 18:31           ` Guenter Roeck
2017-01-30 18:55           ` Stephen Boyd
2017-01-30 19:22             ` Guenter Roeck
2017-01-30 21:42               ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2017-01-30 21:58                 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2017-01-30 22:25                   ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2017-01-30 22:51                 ` Guenter Roeck
2017-01-31  8:43                   ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2017-01-31  0:59               ` Dmitry Torokhov
2017-01-31 17:20                 ` Guenter Roeck [this message]
2017-01-31 18:26                   ` Dmitry Torokhov
2017-01-31 19:34                     ` Guenter Roeck
2017-01-31  0:57             ` [PATCH v3] " Dmitry Torokhov
2017-02-07  3:51               ` Dmitry Torokhov
2017-02-14 19:44                 ` Stephen Boyd
2017-02-14 19:55                   ` Dmitry Torokhov
2017-02-14 20:31                     ` Guenter Roeck
2017-02-14 20:01                   ` Russell King - ARM Linux

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