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From: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
To: York Sun <yorksun@freescale.com>
Cc: linux-i2c@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	lee.jones@linaro.org, andrey@elphel.com,
	sebastian.hesselbarth@gmail.com, rabeeh@solid-run.com
Subject: Re: clock driver
Date: Tue, 26 May 2015 15:38:29 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150526223829.GA26454@roeck-us.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5564C58B.9050400@freescale.com>

On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 12:12:11PM -0700, York Sun wrote:
> Linux experts,
> 
> I have rewritten a driver for Silicon Labs SI5338 programmable clock chip. The
> original driver was written by Andrey (CC'ed), but was floatingn outside of the
> kernel. The driver was written to use sysfs as the interface, not the common
> clock framework. I wonder if I have to rewrite the driver following common clock
> framework. One concern is to support a feature to accept ClockBuilder (TM)
> output on sysfs. I don't see sysfs support on common clock framework. Please
> correct me if I am wrong.
> 
> If not using common clock framework is acceptable, I would like to send a RFC
> patch for review.
> 
My original driver for si570 was rejected because it didn't support the clock
framework, so you might face an uphill battle.

SI provides a document for SI5338 describing how to configure it without
using clockbuilder [1]. Can that be used to implement generic code which
doesn't need clockbuilder ?

Guenter

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[1] https://www.silabs.com/Support%20Documents/TechnicalDocs/Si5338-RM.pdf

  reply	other threads:[~2015-05-26 22:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-05-26 19:12 clock driver York Sun
2015-05-26 22:38 ` Guenter Roeck [this message]
2015-05-27  0:20   ` York Sun
2015-05-27  0:32     ` York Sun
2015-05-27  7:09       ` Sebastian Hesselbarth
2015-05-27 15:07         ` York Sun
2015-05-27 16:42           ` Sebastian Hesselbarth
2015-05-27 16:46             ` York Sun
2015-05-27 17:09               ` Guenter Roeck
2015-05-27 17:10                 ` York Sun
2015-05-27 17:30       ` Michael Turquette
2015-05-27 17:45         ` York Sun
2015-05-27 18:15           ` Guenter Roeck
2015-05-27 18:24             ` York Sun
2015-05-27 18:54               ` Guenter Roeck
2015-05-27 18:58                 ` York Sun
     [not found]                   ` <14d96cd6d64.f62a1a09739217.9114963256886461171@elphel.com>
2015-05-27 23:08                     ` Guenter Roeck
2015-05-27 23:58                       ` andrey
2015-05-28  0:10                         ` Guenter Roeck
2015-05-28  0:29                           ` andrey
2015-05-28  6:11                             ` Michael Turquette
2015-05-28 15:24                               ` York Sun
2015-06-10  0:40         ` York Sun

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