Re: [PATCH 01/16] clk: permit to define a custom parent for clk_hw_get_parent_index

[Stephen Boyd]

Quoting Ansuel Smith (2022-03-15 11:07:26)
> On Tue, Mar 15, 2022 at 10:55:18AM -0700, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> > Quoting Ansuel Smith (2022-03-13 12:04:04)
> > >   */
> > > -int clk_hw_get_parent_index(struct clk_hw *hw)
> > > +int clk_hw_get_parent_index(struct clk_hw *hw, struct clk_hw *parent)
> > 
> > Please introduce another API vs. tacking on an "output" argument to this
> > API. That makes the patch less invasive. And it can also return a
> > pointer instead of an integer in that case.
> >
> 
> Any suggestion about the name? clk_hw_fetch_parent_index? That would be
> a direct access of the internal clk_fetch_parent_index.
> 
> The name is already not that intuitive as is. The alternative is to make
> it extra long, don't know if that's a problem...
> Something like clk_hw_get_parent_index_by_parent? (that is even more
> confusing)

Haha that's a mouthful. clk_hw_get_index_of_parent()? I realize now that
I misread the API because parent wasn't a const pointer. Please make
parent argument const as well and return an int as before.