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From: bhuvanchandra.dv@toradex•com (BhuvanChandra.DV)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH 4/7] spi: spi-fsl-dspi: avoid preparing the clock two times
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2015 06:58:33 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1422428658040.88027@toradex.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150127130117.GU21293@sirena.org.uk>


On 01/27/2015 06:31 PM, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 04:27:21PM +0530, Bhuvanchandra DV wrote:
>> regmap_read/regmap_write will expect the peripheral clock
>> to be enabled before accessing the registers of the peripheral.
>> Since the peripheral clock is enabled separatly, avoid redundant clock
>> prepare (with devm_regmap_init_mmio_clk) and use devm_regmap_init_mmio instead.
> What's the advantage of this?  The clock API is refcounted so there
> should be no issue with this and it seems like it's opening us up to
> bugs if there's a path where we interact with the registers without
> enabling the clocks.

My initial thought was that, since regmap_mmio_init_clk() does call
clk_prepare(), to go with regmap_mmio_init() as clk_prepare_enable()
is called at a later stage in the probe().

  reply	other threads:[~2015-01-28  6:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-01-27 10:57 [PATCH 0/7] Add SPI support for Colibri modules and DSPI driver fixes Bhuvanchandra DV
2015-01-27 10:57 ` [PATCH 1/7] ARM: vf610: add second DSPI instance Bhuvanchandra DV
2015-01-28  9:08   ` Stefan Agner
2015-02-26  8:02   ` Shawn Guo
2015-01-27 10:57 ` [PATCH 2/7] ARM: vf-colibri: add SPI support and enable MCP2515 CAN Bhuvanchandra DV
2015-01-28  9:55   ` Stefan Agner
2015-01-27 10:57 ` [PATCH 3/7] spi: spi-fsl-dspi: Remove usage of devm_kzalloc Bhuvanchandra DV
2015-01-27 18:50   ` Aaron Brice
2015-01-27 19:52   ` Mark Brown
2015-01-28  7:05     ` BhuvanChandra.DV
2015-01-27 10:57 ` [PATCH 4/7] spi: spi-fsl-dspi: avoid preparing the clock two times Bhuvanchandra DV
2015-01-27 13:01   ` Mark Brown
2015-01-28  6:58     ` BhuvanChandra.DV [this message]
2015-01-27 10:57 ` [PATCH 5/7] spi: spi-fsl-dspi: Remove spi-bitbang Bhuvanchandra DV
2015-01-28 19:25   ` Mark Brown

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