From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Guenter Roeck Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] misc: Driver for Silicon Labs Si570 and compatibles Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2011 09:34:19 -0700 Message-ID: <20110420163418.GA22806@ericsson.com> References: <1303248968-5069-1-git-send-email-guenter.roeck@ericsson.com> <4DAEA618.4040801@cam.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4DAEA618.4040801-KWPb1pKIrIJaa/9Udqfwiw@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-i2c-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Jonathan Cameron Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , Andrew Morton , Jonathan Cameron , Randy Dunlap , "linux-doc-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org" , "linux-i2c-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org" , "linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org" , "Hennerich, Michael" List-Id: linux-i2c@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 05:23:36AM -0400, Jonathan Cameron wrote: > On 04/19/11 22:36, Guenter Roeck wrote: > > This driver adds support for Si570, Si571, Si598, and Si599 > > programmable XO/VCXO. > cc'd Michael Hennerich, as I would imagine this has some similarities to the DDS > chips we have in IIO (be it a very simple one). > > Guenter, what is your use case for this part? > It is used to generate a configurable serdes clock. The clock is either left alone at its default, or configured during system startup. What is the use case for dds devices ? Thanks, Guenter