Re: [RFC,PATCH 1/7 v2] Add a common struct clk

[Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>]

On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 09:01:49AM +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 09:48:44AM +0100, Francesco VIRLINZI wrote:
> > Hi Jeremy
> > In November I already sent a proposal on
> >  a generic linux clk framework.
> > On that I would suggest:
> >
> >>
> >> +struct clk {
> >> +	const struct clk_operations *ops;
> >>    
> >            spinlock_t lock;
> >            const char *name;
> >            int id;
> 
> Name and ID are totally pointless, unless you insist on using the clk
> API in the wrong way (like S3C does.)

I do intend to change the clock lookup on the Samsung series, but we're
currently in the process of trying to do a whole pile of work on not
only adding new SoCs but also cleaning up the existing support and making
a whole pile of code common to all the Samsung SoC family.

I never got the time to go throughly through Francesco's clock framework
but it seemed rathe rcomplicated for our current requirements and also
had a whole pile of style problems that made it really difficult to read.

-- 
Ben

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