[alsa-devel] [PATCH v3] ARM: kirkwood: extend the kirkwood i2s driver for DT usage

[Lars-Peter Clausen]

On 07/23/2013 10:53 AM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 10:46:15AM +0200, Jean-Francois Moine wrote:
>> The kirkwood i2s driver is used without DT in the Kirkwood machine.
>> This patch adds a DT compatible definition for use in other Marvell
>> machines as the Armada 88AP510 (Dove).
> 
> Yet again, this illustrates why converting to DT causes backwards
> steps in drivers: the conversion of devm_clk_get() to of_clk_get()
> necessitates a clk_put().

That's just a very poor usage of the API in this patch. devm_clk_get() works
fine on DT and non-DT platforms. The driver shouldn't need any changes in
that regard.

- Lars