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From: "Cousson, Benoit" <b-cousson@ti.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/9] ARM: OMAP2+: Fix external clock support for dmtimers
Date: Tue, 22 May 2012 17:55:53 +0200
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On 5/22/2012 5:04 PM, Jon Hunter wrote:

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>> In fact, if the alt clock is there the "alt_clk" alias will be there and
>> thus you can use the clk_get(dev, "alt_clk") to figure out if the clock
>> is there or not.
>
> Ok, I can do this and did think about it, but then wondered why it had
> been done this way in the first place?

Yeah, I don't know but I guess this is probably some OMAP1 legacy stuff...

Benoit