From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Roger Quadros Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] ARM: OMAP2+: Allow clock alias provision from device tree Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2013 09:47:40 +0200 Message-ID: <5119F39C.2080206@ti.com> References: <1360597464-8491-1-git-send-email-rogerq@ti.com> <20130211160752.GG1906@pengutronix.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20130211160752.GG1906-bIcnvbaLZ9MEGnE8C9+IrQ@public.gmane.org> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: devicetree-discuss-bounces+gldd-devicetree-discuss=m.gmane.org-uLR06cmDAlY/bJ5BZ2RsiQ@public.gmane.org Sender: "devicetree-discuss" To: Sascha Hauer , Santosh Shilimkar , Rajendra Nayak Cc: Russell King , devicetree-discuss-uLR06cmDAlY/bJ5BZ2RsiQ@public.gmane.org, linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, balbi-l0cyMroinI0@public.gmane.org, linux-omap-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, linux-arm-kernel-IAPFreCvJWM7uuMidbF8XUB+6BGkLq7r@public.gmane.org List-Id: devicetree@vger.kernel.org On 02/11/2013 06:07 PM, Sascha Hauer wrote: > On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 05:44:23PM +0200, Roger Quadros wrote: >> Currently on OMAP, it is not possible to specify a clock consumer >> to any of the OMAP generated clocks using the device tree. This can pose >> a problem for external devices that run off an OMAP clock as we >> can't reliably provide a reference to the clock in the device tree. > > There is an established way of providing clocks in the devicetree using > the clocks/clock-names properties. Wouldn't it be better using this > for OMAP aswell? > I agree with you, but I'm not sure when this migration will be done. Rajendra/Santosh might know better. regards, -roger