[PATCH v4 7/8] ARM: Exynos: switch to using generic cpufreq-cpu0 driver

Arnd Bergmann
2014-05-14T13:18:01Z

On Wednesday 14 May 2014 18:44:46 Viresh Kumar wrote:
> On 14 May 2014 18:41, Heiko St?bner <heiko@sntech.de> wrote:
> > Am Mittwoch, 14. Mai 2014, 18:35:29 schrieb Viresh Kumar:
> >> On 14 May 2014 18:20, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote:
> >> > Could we please come up with a way to probe this from DT in the
> >> > cpufreq-cpu0 driver itself, so we don't have to add a device in every
> >> > platform using it?
>
> >> Its followed that way because DT Maintainers had strong objections
> >> to creating virtual device nodes and haven't allowed creation of nodes
> >> for cpufreq drivers.. For which there is no physical device, as CPU already
> >> has a separate node..
> >
> > as we already have the "enable-method" property for enabling/disabling cpus,
> > would something like a "scaling-method" be feasible?

Good idea to put it as a property into the CPU node.

> Lets see what DT maintainers have to say on this, I would rather go for a
> more straight forward name: "scaling-driver" ..

Both sound fine to me.

Arnd