[PATCH 2/2 v4] clk: Add Gemini SoC clock controller

[sboyd@codeaurora.org (Stephen Boyd)]

On 06/15, Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 10:55 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven
> <geert@linux-m68k.org> wrote:
> 
> > If clocks and resets are provided by the same hardware module, you can
> > have a single (platform) driver registering both the clock and reset
> > controllers.
> > Cfr. drivers/clk/renesas/renesas-cpg-mssr.c.
> 
> That is indeed an option.
> 
> So I would say, clk & reset maintainers: would you prefer that I merge the
> reset control into the clock driver as well, ask Philipp to drop the pending
> reset control patches from his subsystem tree and have you manage the
> combined driver and bindings?
> 
> It seems to me as very ugly from a divide & conquer subsystem and file
> split point of view.
> 
> I seems elegant from the "make clocks a platform device" point of view.
> 
> I am happy with either approach as long as it works.
> 
> I guess it is up to the taste of the subsystem maintainers, especially
> clk.
> 
> If I get some time I might just hack this up and send the patches so
> it is on the table as an alternative to the current v5 patch. Certainly it is
> better than going back and augmenting the DT bindings.
> 

We have quite a few clock and reset controllers that put their
drivers into the clk directory. I don't see any problem with that
approach.

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