Re: [PATCH 2/3] PWM: vt8500: Update vt8500 PWM driver support

[Thierry Reding]

On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 08:09:07PM +1300, Tony Prisk wrote:
> On Mon, 2012-10-22 at 19:51 +1300, Tony Prisk wrote:
> > > 
> > > >  	chip = devm_kzalloc(&pdev->dev, sizeof(*chip), GFP_KERNEL);
> > > >  	if (chip == NULL) {
> > > >  		dev_err(&pdev->dev, "failed to allocate memory\n");
> > > > @@ -123,26 +144,32 @@ static int __devinit pwm_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> > > >  	chip->chip.ops = &vt8500_pwm_ops;
> > > >  	chip->chip.base = -1;
> > > >  	chip->chip.npwm = VT8500_NR_PWMS;
> > > > +	chip->clk = of_clk_get(np, 0);
> > > 
> > > I thought this was supposed to work transparently across OF and !OF
> > > configurations by using just clk_get() or devm_clk_get()? I guess that
> > > if the driver depends on OF, then this would be moot, but we should
> > > probably stick to the standard usage anyway.
> > > 
> > > Furthermore, of_clk_get() doesn't seem to be managed, so you'd need to
> > > add explicit clk_put() in the error cleanup paths. One more argument in
> > > favour of using devm_clk_get() instead.
> > 
> > Hmm good point. I stuck with of_ functions because its an OF only driver
> > and it seemed 'backward' to mix old code with new. It does pose the
> > question of 'why have of_clk_get() if existing functions work better'.
> 
> Was about to fix this but noticed why it wasn't like this to start
> with :)
> 
> struct clk *devm_clk_get(struct device *dev, const char *id);
> struct clk *of_clk_get(struct device_node *np, int index);
> 
> devm_clk_get requires me to 'get' the clock by name. arch-vt8500 (and I
> believe a lot of other arch's) don't enforce names for clocks defined in
> devicetree, therefore there is no way for me to know what name the clk
> has unless I include in the binding that the clock must be named 'xxx'.

I thought clk_get() was supposed to return the first clock specified in
DT if you pass NULL as the consumer name. I haven't tested this though.
And I haven't looked at the code.

> of_clk_get retrieves it by the dt-node + index, so it doesn't care as
> long as its the 1st clock listed.

So the usual way to do this, I believe, is:

	clocks = <&clk_foo>;
	clock-names = "foo";

Then use:

	clk = devm_clk_get(&pdev->dev, "foo");

And as I said above, I was under the impression that the default would
be to use the first clock if NULL was specified instead of "foo".

Thierry

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