[PATCH RFC] clk: add support for automatic parent handling

Saravana Kannan
2011-04-22T22:26:25Z

On 04/22/2011 09:57 AM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Apr 2011, Colin Cross wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 2:51 AM, Thomas Gleixner<tglx@linutronix.de> wrote:
>>> Another thing I'm pondering is to provide the ability to maintain
>>> separate clk trees. So you can have individual domains which have
>>> their per clk tree locking. Would that make sense ?
>>
>> Clock trees are likely to be linked somewhere - an external clock chip
>> that drives the main clock input on the SoC, or an SoC clock output
>> that drives a chip with an internal clock tree. Domains would have to
>> be dynamically managed to ensure two clocks from different clock chips
>> that become linked are moved under the same clock lock. Probably
>> easier to keep a global lock.
>
> Ok. It's easy enough to split later if the need arises.

MSM certainly has the need for having independent clock trees. I would
like support for this to be in from the start otherwise it's going to
really screw clocks in one of the trees.

-Saravana

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