Am Freitag, den 26.10.2012, 12:17 -0400 schrieb Paul Gortmaker:
> On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 10:27 AM, Philipp Zabel <p.za...@pengutronix.de> 
> wrote:
> > On some platforms the SRAM needs a clock to be enabled explicitly.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Philipp Zabel <p.za...@pengutronix.de>
> > ---
> >  drivers/misc/sram.c |   10 ++++++++++
> >  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/misc/sram.c b/drivers/misc/sram.c
> > index 7a363f2..0cc2e75 100644
> > --- a/drivers/misc/sram.c
> > +++ b/drivers/misc/sram.c
> > @@ -21,6 +21,8 @@
> >  #include <linux/kernel.h>
> >  #include <linux/module.h>
> >  #include <linux/init.h>
> > +#include <linux/clk.h>
> > +#include <linux/err.h>
> >  #include <linux/io.h>
> >  #include <linux/of.h>
> >  #include <linux/platform_device.h>
> > @@ -29,6 +31,7 @@
> >
> >  struct sram_dev {
> >         struct gen_pool *pool;
> > +       struct clk *clk;
> >  };
> 
> I see another field gets added to the struct here.  (yet another
> reason to have it folded into the original)   But you still
> really don't need to create a sram_dev for this, because...
> 
> >
> >  static int __devinit sram_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> > @@ -53,6 +56,10 @@ static int __devinit sram_probe(struct platform_device 
> > *pdev)
> >         if (!sram)
> >                 return -ENOMEM;
> >
> > +       sram->clk = devm_clk_get(&pdev->dev, NULL);
> > +       if (!IS_ERR(sram->clk))
> > +               clk_prepare_enable(sram->clk);
> > +
> >         sram->pool = gen_pool_create(PAGE_SHIFT, -1);
> >         if (!sram->pool)
> >                 return -ENOMEM;
> > @@ -80,6 +87,9 @@ static int __devexit sram_remove(struct platform_device 
> > *pdev)
> >
> >         gen_pool_destroy(sram->pool);
> >
> > +       if (!IS_ERR(sram->clk))
> > +               clk_disable_unprepare(sram->clk);
> > +
> 
> ...here, this looks confusing with the use of IS_ERR on
> an entity that was not recently assigned to.

Right.
How about I set sram->clk = NULL in sram_probe if devm_clk_get returns
an error value?

> Instead, just
> put a "struct clk *clk;" on the stack and do the
> 
>    clk = devm_clk_get(&pdev->dev, NULL);
> 
> in both the init and the teardown.  Then the code will be
> more readable.

Calling devm_clk_get on the same clock twice seems a bit weird.
I expect that eventually someone will want to disable clocks during
suspend, so I'd prefer to keep the clk pointer around.

regards
Philipp

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