Re: [PATCH v6 00/54] MediaTek clocks: full module build and cleanups

[Chen-Yu Tsai]

On Tue, Mar 14, 2023 at 7:22 AM Stephen Boyd <sboyd@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Quoting AngeloGioacchino Del Regno (2023-03-06 06:04:49)
> >
> > This huge series adds more cleanups on top, reducing size and adding more
> > commonization for clock drivers probe/remove, which also includes a new
> > common probe mechanism for multimedia clock drivers that are usually
> > probed by mtk-mmsys instead of a dt clock node: thanks to this, it was
> > finally possible to convert almost all clock drivers to the common probe
> > mechanism, which *finally again* makes us able to build all these drivers
> > as modules!
> >
> > Since this looked like being *the* way forward, I went on converting some
> > more drivers away from OF_CLK_DECLARE_DRIVER to full platform_driver(s),
> > allowing for more (actually, almost all!) drivers to be built as modules.
> >
> > While at it, I also added some more consistency in macros usage by
> > removing all of the duplicated full macro declaration for MediaTek gate
> > clocks and replacing all of those with using the GATE_MTK macro instead,
> > producing a nice reduction in amount of lines per file but, more
> > importantly, improving readability and eventual future batch changes.
> >
> > This amount of commonization will also, in my opinion, greatly improve
> > the review process for new clock drivers, as they will be mostly just a
> > list of clocks and won't contain much new code, as it's all going to be
> > handled in the common places, which also reduces chances to see new clock
> > driver related bugs emerging on one SoC or the other.
> >
> > Since I don't own devices with all of the supported MediaTek SoCs, I
> > could not test some of the conversions on real hardware... but I am
> > confident that this will work as the drivers are *very* similar on a
> > per-generation basis.
> >
> > This series was build-tested for all (both module and built-in build)
> > and was manually tested on MT6795, MT8173, MT8192, MT8195.
> >
>
> Applied the whole series to clk-next.

Hadn't gotten around to retesting this. FWIW,

Tested-by: Chen-Yu Tsai <wenst@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

on MT8183, MT8186, MT8192, MT8195