RE: [PATCH] OMAP: hwmod: Do not expect an entry in clkdev to add alias for opt_clks

[Rajendra Nayak <rnayak@ti.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Walmsley [mailto:paul@pwsan.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2011 10:23 PM
> To: Rajendra Nayak
> Cc: linux-omap@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: RE: [PATCH] OMAP: hwmod: Do not expect an entry in clkdev to
add alias for opt_clks
>
> On Tue, 1 Feb 2011, Rajendra Nayak wrote:
>
> > One other thing I was thinking of is if the function name
> > _add_optional_clock_alias need to be changed to something like
> > _add_optional_clock_clkdev since we are adding a new clkdev entry,
> > if it does not exist, and no longer adding an 'alias' for an existing
> > entry.
>
> Fine with me.
>
> > Also, the adding of an entry in clkdev is today done for
> > optional clocks alone. Is there any reason why we should not do
> > this at runtime for all main clks and interface clks also.
> > That way we get rid of all dependencies with the static clkdev
> > table, and we might infact not need one if all entries are added
> > runtime.
>
> Heh, you've just uncovered my "secret" plan.  It seemed best to me to
wait
> until all of the hwmod conversions were done to avoid alarming certain
> people who might be consulting the static clkdev table in
> mach-omap2/clock*_data.c as a platform reference...

Ok, sounds good to me, thanks.
Will repost this one with the mentioned changes.

>
>
> - Paul