Re: About clk maintainership [Was: Re: [PULL] Add variants of devm_clk_get for prepared and enabled clocks enabled clocks]

From: Russell King (Oracle)
Date: Mon Aug 02 2021 - 16:29:11 EST


On Mon, Aug 02, 2021 at 08:13:05PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 2, 2021 at 7:38 PM Russell King (Oracle)
> <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > It probably depends on where you stand on power management and power
> > efficiency issues. Personally, I would like to see more effort put
> > into drivers to make them more power efficient, and I believe in the
> > coming years, power efficiency is going to become a big issue.
>
> While in the ideal world I 100% agree with the approach, IRL we have
> to deal with constantly degrading quality of the code and instead of
> thinking about power management and efficiency the absence of APIs
> such as discussed provokes not only creating the power management
> inefficient code, but also memory leaks here and there.

The point of my previous reply that you quoted above was to make a
prediction, it wasn't a rejection of the approach.

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