Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2016 16:14:49 +0800
From: Xiaolong Zhang <xiaolong.zhang@spreadtrum.com>
To: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
CC: <mturquette@baylibre.com>, <orson.zhai@spreadtrum.com>,
        <baolin.wang@spreadtrum.com>, <linux-clk@vger.kernel.org>,
        <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, <ben.li@spreadturm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] clk: Register clkdev after setup of fixed-rate and
 fixed-factor clocks
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On 四, 10月 20, 2016 at 04:01:03下午 -0700, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> On 10/11, Orson Zhai wrote:
> > From: Xiaolong Zhang <xiaolong.zhang@spreadtrum.com>
> > 
> > When common kernel setups fixed clock, of_clk_provider will be registerred.
> > But there is no clkdev being registerred at the same time. This will make
> > it difficult to get the clock by using clk_get(NULL, con_id).
> > 
> > Add clkdev register for fixed-rate and fixed-factor clock and ignore
> > the error if any.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Xiaolong Zhang <xiaolong.zhang@spreadtrum.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Orson Zhai <orson.zhai@spreadtrum.com>
> > ---
> 
> Why are we using clkdev lookups for clks populated from DT?
> Shouldn't we be able to point to them from the consumers that
> would also be in DT? I'm a little lost.
> 
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The clk_get interface allows the first argument as NULL. We just assure
consumers can get the clock from DT or by clock name.