Re: [PATCH v2 11/17] clk: imx: Add blk_ctrl combo driver

[Dong Aisheng]

On Thu, Aug 20, 2020 at 4:31 AM Abel Vesa <abel.vesa@xxxxxxx> wrote:
....
> > > +extern const struct imx_blk_ctrl_dev_data imx8mp_audio_blk_ctrl_dev_data __initconst;
> > > +extern const struct imx_blk_ctrl_dev_data imx8mp_media_blk_ctrl_dev_data __initconst;
> > > +extern const struct imx_blk_ctrl_dev_data imx8mp_hdmi_blk_ctrl_dev_data __initconst;
> > > +
> >
> > If no special reasons, i may prefer to put those data in either
> > clk-blk-ctrl.c or separate clk-blk-ctrl-data.c
> > because there seems to be no code level dependency on the CCM
> > driver(clk-imx8mq.c) for clk_blk_ctrl drivers.
> > Then we can save those extern variables.
> >
>
> The rationale here is to have the SoC specific definitions in the SoC specific
> clock provider driver. Otherwise with every new SoC that will use the blk_ctl
> IPs we will increase the size of clk-blk-ctrl driver. Plus the kernel names of
> the clocks used by each blk_ctl IP as parents are also defined in the SoC
> specific clock provider driver.
>
> I'll find a way, though, to move those so that they would not be shared between
> all the clock drivers that needs a blk_ctl implementation.
>

Please refer to pinctrl-imx.c to see if we can do similar things for blk-ctrl.

Regards
Aisheng

> > Regards
> > Aisheng
> >
> > > +#endif
> > > +
> > > --
> > > 2.7.4
> > >