Re: [RFC] cpufreq: Add "dvfs-method" binding to probe cpufreq drivers

["santosh.shilimkar@oracle.com" <santosh.shilimkar@oracle.com>]

On 11/26/14 9:14 PM, Viresh Kumar wrote:
> On 26 November 2014 at 22:04, santosh shilimkar
> <santosh.shilimkar@oracle.com> wrote:
>> Its really not 'dvfs-method' but really the actual driver which you
>> want to probe. Also we should just have one global way to parse
>> DT vs non-DT cpufreq drivers. In other words, instead of matching
>> multiple driver strings for different drivers, we should come up with
>> slightly generic binding. Probably 'cpufreq-dt' for all DT based probed
>> CPUFREQ drivers.
>>
>> What you say ?
>
> I got a bit confused. :(
>
> The whole purpose of this binding is to select which cpufreq driver to
> choose from the available ones.
>
> Are you saying that we should have only one cpufreq driver that works
> with DT ? I don't think that would be the right decision, but we should
> try to reuse cpufreq-dt wherever possible.
>
I didn't mean one CPUFreq driver which works with DT.

> Or are you saying that some common code should parse this DT information?
Yes.

> This is what I said in the patch, we can write another file which will
> just create
> a platform_device for us, depending on the string that came in.
>
Sounds good.

Regards,
Santosh