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Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 07:19:54 -0400
From: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Subject: Re: ARM clock API to PowerPC
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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.

josh