From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kumar Gala Subject: Re: ARM clock API to PowerPC Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 08:40:35 -0500 Message-ID: <4A90486C-8BF5-428C-9FD8-830D822C0D40@kernel.crashing.org> References: <1250063825.15143.43.camel@pasglop> <20090812111954.GB31596@zod.rchland.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v936) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed"; DelSp="yes" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20090812111954.GB31596-jnIq6iUNB1CO8iYQgJmm/0EOCMrvLtNR@public.gmane.org> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: devicetree-discuss-bounces+gldd-devicetree-discuss=m.gmane.org-uLR06cmDAlY/bJ5BZ2RsiQ@public.gmane.org Errors-To: devicetree-discuss-bounces+gldd-devicetree-discuss=m.gmane.org-uLR06cmDAlY/bJ5BZ2RsiQ@public.gmane.org To: Josh Boyer Cc: devicetree-discuss-uLR06cmDAlY/bJ5BZ2RsiQ@public.gmane.org, John Jacques , linuxppc-dev list , Torez Smith , Russell King List-Id: devicetree@vger.kernel.org On Aug 12, 2009, at 6:19 AM, Josh Boyer wrote: > On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 05:57:05PM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt > wrote: >> Hi folks ! >> >> (Russell, let us know if you want to dropped from the CC list, but I >> felt you may have some useful input to provide here). >> >> So I think it would be valuable to provide the ARM clock API >> exposed by >> include/linux/clk.h on various PowerPC embedded hardware. > > I'm probably being particularly dense, and I haven't had my coffee > yet this > morning, but you never actually said _why_ you think this is valuable? > > I'm a bit confused as to what problem you are trying to solve with > the API. I'm in the same boat as you Josh. I think there is value and utility here but not sure what problem Ben's trying to solve. - k