Re: [PATCH v3 2/7] ARM: bcm2835: Add a Raspberry Pi-specific clock driver.

[Lee Jones <lee@kernel.org>]

On Mon, 08 Jun 2015, Eric Anholt wrote:

> Unfortunately, the clock manager's registers are not accessible by the
> ARM, so we have to request that the firmware modify our clocks for us.
> 
> This driver only registers the clocks at the point they are requested
> by a client driver.  This is partially to support returning
> -EPROBE_DEFER when the firmware driver isn't supported yet, but it
> also avoids issues with disabling "unused" clocks due to them not yet
> being connected to their consumers in the DT.
> 
> v2: Declare the mutex static (from review by Baruch Siach), merge
>     description and copyright comments.
> 
> v3: Update for new rpi firmware API.  Update the compatible string.
>     Make the firmware handle be under a vendor-namespaced property.
>     Make the DT indices match the firmware clock IDs.  Move the driver
>     under the firmware driver's Kconfig, since it requires it.  Move a
>     container_of() from 2 callers into the callee.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net>
> ---
>  drivers/clk/Makefile          |   1 +
>  drivers/clk/clk-raspberrypi.c | 242 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

This is not an "ARM" patch.

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