Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 13 May 2015 08:45:50 +0200 | From | Uwe Kleine-König <> | Subject | Re: Automatic clock disabling on clk_put() |
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Hello,
On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 04:23:48PM -0700, Stephen Boyd wrote: > On 05/10/15 23:01, Sascha Hauer wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Since we now have per-user clks we could automatically disable clks on > > clk_put() to make the drivers errors paths easier. AFAIR that was one > > of the motivations to switch to per user clks. Is this just not yet > > implemented or are there problems implementing this? > > I don't recall that as being a motivation for per-user clks. The > documentation explicitly states: > > * Note: drivers must ensure that all clk_enable calls made on this > * clock source are balanced by clk_disable calls prior to calling > * this function. > > so it seems that such a behavior would be an API change. Is it really well, it's a compatible API change. So if you continue to use it as you were obliged to do before, everything is fine. IMHO the introduction of per-user clocks are a much bigger issue.
I'm not sure that auto disabling is a good idea[1], but at least giving a warning should be possible.
> that hard to call clk_disable_unprepare() on a clock at the end of an > error path? Maybe you could add a devm_clk_get_prepare_enable() that > does what you want and then call clk_disable_unprepare on the exit path? You mean clk_disable_unprepare is called in the same function that calls clk_put I assume such that you don't have to do anything in the exit path.
Best regards Uwe
[1] mainly because I didn't think about it -- Pengutronix e.K. | Uwe Kleine-König | Industrial Linux Solutions | http://www.pengutronix.de/ |
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