Re: [PATCH 1/3] clk: introduce omap_clk_associate

[Felipe Balbi <me@felipebalbi.com>]

On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 10:47:44AM -0700, David Brownell wrote:
> On Tuesday 14 October 2008, Felipe Balbi wrote:
> > I didn't quite get you here. The idea of mmc_fck is so that
> > 
> > clk_get(dev, "mmc_fck");
> > 
> > works fine and returns the correct clock. If we have several fck and ick
> > function names, how will we clk_get() the right one ??
> 
> If "dev" is an MMC device, there's no way to confuse
> its "fck" and "ick" with those for, say, I2C.   Right?
> That's the whole point of associating logical clock
> names with the device.
> 
> And as Paul noted, if a device has several such clocks,
> then it needs several such names.

hmm... that's true. Forgot about matching dev as well :-p
hehehe. Makes sense to me, let's use fclk and iclk then :-)

The main idea then would be that clk(dev, "iclk") translates to english
into "get me the interface clock of mmc device" (when dev is an mmc
device, of course).

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balbi