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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/2] clk: s2mps11: allocate only one structure for clock init
Hi Yadwinder,

> The driver allocates three structures for three different clock
> types. They are quite similar and in the clock init data they
> differ only by the name. Only one of these structure is used,
> while the others lie unused in the memory.
>
>
> If you are worried about memory, they can be made __initdata by
> creating a copy during probe.

mmmhhh... allocating in boot time as much as we want and then copy
what we need? It doesn't look that pretty to me.

> The clock's name, though, is not such a meaningful information
>
>
> I think it can be meaningful in debugging.

Can you explain what's the use of the naming other than
debugging?

> and by assigning the same name to the initial data we can avoid
> over allocation. The common name chosen will be s2mps11,
> coherently with the device driver name, instead of the clock
> device.
>
> Therefore, remove the structures associated to s2mps13 and
> s2mps14 and use only the one referred to s2mps11 for all kind of
> clocks.
>
>
> IMHO, with all these modifications, it will leave driver with some extra
> checks and reduced readability, perhaps will make it complex to add
> support for similar clocks but with different clk_ops, if next version or
>  any similar mfd chip comes up in future.

In that case, when the new chip will come, we would need to
figure out something, but for sure I don't see it as a good idea
to leave allocated unused structures.

Thanks,
Andi

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