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From:   Chen-Yu Tsai <wenst@chromium.org>
Date:   Mon, 26 Dec 2022 15:05:05 +0800
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 03/23] clk: mediatek: clk-gate: Propagate struct device
 with mtk_clk_register_gates()
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On Fri, Dec 23, 2022 at 5:43 PM AngeloGioacchino Del Regno
<angelogioacchino.delregno@collabora.com> wrote:
>
> Commit e4c23e19aa2a ("clk: mediatek: Register clock gate with device")
> introduces a helper function for the sole purpose of propagating a
> struct device pointer to the clk API when registering the mtk-gate
> clocks to take advantage of Runtime PM when/where needed and where
> a power domain is defined in devicetree.
>
> Function mtk_clk_register_gates() then becomes a wrapper around the
> new mtk_clk_register_gates_with_dev() function that will simply pass
> NULL as struct device: this is essential when registering drivers
> with CLK_OF_DECLARE instead of as a platform device, as there will
> be no struct device to pass... but we can as well simply have only
> one function that always takes such pointer as a param and pass NULL
> when unavoidable.
>
> This commit removes the mtk_clk_register_gates() wrapper and renames
> mtk_clk_register_gates_with_dev() to the former and all of the calls
> to either of the two functions were fixed in all drivers in order to
> reflect this change.
>
> Since a lot of MediaTek clock drivers are actually registering as a
> platform device, but were still registering the mtk-gate clocks
> without passing any struct device to the clock framework, they've
> been changed to pass a valid one now, as to make all those platforms
> able to use runtime power management where available.
>
> Signed-off-by: AngeloGioacchino Del Regno <angelogioacchino.delregno@collabora.com>

Reviewed-by: Chen-Yu Tsai <wenst@chromium.org>

However, I wonder if we could move the |struct device *| paramter to be
the first one? This matches other APIs better, notably the clk_register()
family.

Regards
ChenYu