Re: [alsa-devel] [PATCH v6 1/3] clk: x86: Add Atom PMC platform clocks

[Andy Shevchenko]

On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 7:15 AM, Pierre-Louis Bossart
<pierre-louis.bossart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Stephen,
>
> can you elaborate on the last comment?

Please don't do top posting.

>>> devm_kasprintf()
>>
>> Please no.

That's why I used modal verb "might" instead of "would".

>> It's all local to this function, devm isn't helping anything.
>> Having one kfree() would be good though. And using init.name for
>> the clkdev lookup is probably wrong and should be replaced with
>> something more generic along with an associated device name.
>
> I am not sure I understand this last comment.
> init.name is not a constant, it's made of the "pmc_plt_clk_" string
> concatenated with an id which directly maps to which hardware clock is
> registered. Clients use devm_clk_get() with a "pmc_plt_clk_<n>" argument.

Giving more thoughts about design and use of this I would propose to
do the following.

1. Create under clock framework something like clk-pmc-atom clock
driver (see, for example, clk-fractional-divider, though this one
should indeed go under x86 folder).
2. In real provider, i.e. pmc_atom, create the necessary clock tree
with *names*.

Scheme with ID is fragile, imagine another version of PMC where
ordering would be mixed up? It's not hypothetical since we used to
have this already in pmc_atom for some registers and bits.

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko