Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 23 Jul 2013 10:39:50 +0100 | From | Russell King - ARM Linux <> | Subject | Re: [alsa-devel] [PATCH v3] ARM: kirkwood: extend the kirkwood i2s driver for DT usage |
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On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 11:08:20AM +0200, Sascha Hauer wrote: > On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 09:53:46AM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 10:46:15AM +0200, Jean-Francois Moine wrote: > > > The kirkwood i2s driver is used without DT in the Kirkwood machine. > > > This patch adds a DT compatible definition for use in other Marvell > > > machines as the Armada 88AP510 (Dove). > > > > Yet again, this illustrates why converting to DT causes backwards > > steps in drivers: the conversion of devm_clk_get() to of_clk_get() > > necessitates a clk_put(). > > > > Can someone please provide a devm_of_clk_get() function before we > > accept any more patches doing this kind of thing? > > The question is why isn't regular [devm_]clk_get used here? I don't know > what the Marvell stuff is doing here, but if the clk stuff is > implemented correctly then > > np = pdev->dev.of_node; > priv->clk = of_clk_get(np, 0); > > and > > devm_clk_get(&pdev->dev, "label"); > > should both work
You tell me - I keep seeing patches on this list converting drivers from using devm_clk_get() to using of_clk_get(). Maybe of_clk_get() should be marked deprecated to stop people using it?
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