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From: robherring2@gmail.com (Rob Herring)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/4] clk: select CLKDEV_LOOKUP for COMMON_CLK
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2012 09:59:36 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F902858.9040905@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120418070721.GL3852@pengutronix.de>

On 04/18/2012 02:07 AM, Sascha Hauer wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 03:13:49PM -0700, Turquette, Mike wrote:
>> On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 1:24 PM, Rob Herring <robherring2@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> From: Rob Herring <rob.herring@calxeda.com>
>>>
>>> Using the common clock infrastructure without the common clkdev code makes
>>> little sense, so select CLKDEV_LOOKUP for COMMON_CLK.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <rob.herring@calxeda.com>
>>> ---
>>>  drivers/clk/Kconfig |    1 +
>>>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/drivers/clk/Kconfig b/drivers/clk/Kconfig
>>> index 165e1fe..f05a60d 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/clk/Kconfig
>>> +++ b/drivers/clk/Kconfig
>>> @@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ config HAVE_MACH_CLKDEV
>>>  config COMMON_CLK
>>>        bool
>>>        select HAVE_CLK_PREPARE
>>> +       select CLKDEV_LOOKUP
>>>        ---help---
>>>          The common clock framework is a single definition of struct
>>>          clk, useful across many platforms, as well as an
>>
>> Hi Rob,
>>
>> I agree that the common clk framework is not particularly useful
>> without clkdev.  However the core code has no dependency on clkdev.
>> Why not just select it from an arch Kconfig, or even make it a
>> dependency based on your own platform clock data/code?
> 
> Selecting it from COMMON_CLK means that the compiler/linker will point
> everybody trying to implement it without CLKDEV into the right
> direction.

Right. That was part of my rationale as well.

The DT clock support is dependent on both options, so without this patch
we'll have to add an otherwise unneeded OF_CLOCK option to select both.

Rob

  reply	other threads:[~2012-04-19 14:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-04-09 20:24 [PATCH 0/4] DT clock binding support Rob Herring
2012-04-09 20:24 ` [PATCH 1/4] clk: select CLKDEV_LOOKUP for COMMON_CLK Rob Herring
2012-04-15  3:18   ` Rob Herring
2012-04-17 22:13   ` Turquette, Mike
2012-04-18  7:07     ` Sascha Hauer
2012-04-19 14:59       ` Rob Herring [this message]
2012-04-19 20:01         ` Turquette, Mike
2012-04-09 20:24 ` [PATCH 2/4] clk: remove trailing whitespace from clk.h Rob Herring
2012-04-19 20:06   ` Turquette, Mike
2012-04-09 20:25 ` [PATCH 3/4] clk: add DT clock binding support Rob Herring
2012-04-10  2:19   ` Shawn Guo
2012-04-10  4:27   ` Fabio Estevam
2012-04-10 12:57     ` Rob Herring
2012-05-01 22:59   ` Mike Turquette
2012-05-14 13:40     ` Rob Herring
2012-04-09 20:25 ` [PATCH 4/4] clk: add DT fixed-clock " Rob Herring

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