[PATCH v3 3/5] clk: Add common __clk_get(), __clk_put() implementations

On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 05:03:45PM +0200, Sylwester Nawrocki wrote:

This patch adds common __clk_get(), __clk_put() clkdev helpers which
replace their platform specific counterparts when the common clock
API is enabled.

The owner module pointer field is added to struct clk so a reference
to the clock supplier module can be taken by the clock consumers.

Signed-off-by: Sylwester Nawrocki <s.nawrocki@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@samsung.com>

I'm mostly happy with this now.

+int __clk_get(struct clk *clk)
+{
+	if (clk && !try_module_get(clk->owner))
+		return 0;
+
+	return 1;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(__clk_get);
+
+void __clk_put(struct clk *clk)
+{
+	if (WARN_ON_ONCE(IS_ERR(clk)))
+		return;
+
+	if (clk)
+		module_put(clk->owner);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(__clk_put);

Why are these exported?  clkdev can only be built into the kernel, as can
the common clk framework - they can't be modular.  So why would a module
wish to access these directly?