From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: linux@arm.linux.org.uk (Russell King - ARM Linux) Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 21:03:24 +0100 Subject: Meaning of clk_round_rate()? In-Reply-To: <4C3DFC7A.8020002@codeaurora.org> References: <4C3DFC7A.8020002@codeaurora.org> Message-ID: <20100714200324.GA18138@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 11:05:46AM -0700, Stephen Boyd wrote: > What is the meaning of clk_round_rate() in the clk API > (include/linux/clk.h)? The function documentation says "adjust a rate to > the exact rate a clock can provide". That seems pretty vague. I'm lead > to believe that it rounds the rate to the closest rate supported. Is > that correct? Is there some sort of error margin where beyond that it's > no longer possible to be rounded? 0.5%? 1%? clk_round_rate() returns the clock rate which will be set if you ask clk_set_rate() to set that rate. It provides a way to query from the implementation exactly what rate you'll get if you use clk_set_rate() with that same argument. So essentially, clk_set_rate() should be: static int clk_set_rate(struct clk *clk, unsigned long rate) { rate = clk_round_rate(clk, rate); return set_actual_rate(clk, rate); }