Re: [PATCH 2/2] clk: core: link consumer with clock driver

[Stephen Boyd]

Quoting Miquel Raynal (2018-12-03 14:16:55)
> Stephen Boyd <sboyd@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote on Mon, 03 Dec 2018 11:20:31
> -0800:
> > Quoting Miquel Raynal (2018-11-30 02:20:52)
> > > Stephen Boyd <sboyd@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote on Fri, 30 Nov 2018 01:26:20
> > > -0800:
> > > > Quoting Miquel Raynal (2018-11-23 01:11:32)  
> > > 
> > > Because we need the caller's 'struct device' to make the link and
> > > this is not available in __clk_get(). I tried to ad it as parameter but
> > > I don't think it is possible to retrieve a 'struct device' from the
> > > device name. The functions where this is problematic are:
> > > * clk.c:__of_clk_get_from_provider()
> > > * clkdev.c:clk_get_sys()
> > > 
> > > By the way in my new version I called the helpers:
> > > * clk_{link,unlink}_hierarchy()
> > > * clk_{link,unlink}_consumer()
> > > 
> > > I will send a new version with these helpers, but if you have anything
> > > in mind to help me achieve the above request, I will welcome the idea.
> > >   
> > 
> > We can do the linking in __clk_get() and __clk_put() if we poke into the
> > struct clk -> struct clk_core and bury the struct device into each
> > clk_core structure.
> > 
> 
> I meant the consumer device's structure. Yes, from a struct clk, the
> first change in patch 1/2 let's us do clk->core->dev to get the clock
> device. But for linking I need both the clock device and the consumer
> device; and the latter will be missing in __clk_get().
> 

Ah ok, sounds like this is how it has to be then.