From: Mark Brown <broonie@sirena.org.uk>
To: Jonas Bonn <jonas.bonn@gmail.com>
Cc: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] API for system clocks (oscillators)
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 20:13:44 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081030201341.GD13678@sirena.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7a6abd110810301001r7fc311adifd85fece79cb5c45@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 06:01:42PM +0100, Jonas Bonn wrote:
> > You could probably work those features into the existing clk framework.
> > clk_set_rate() could compute the constrains and return an error.
> > The API could be expanded with notifier support.
...
> What drove me to document a new interface is the fact that there are
> so many users of "struct clk" already, that it becomes conceptually
> easier to dream up something new that stays out of the way, even if
> that new thing becomes just a wrapper around the existing interface
BTW, on this point I don't know if you've seen Dmitry Baryshkov's work
on a generic implementation of the existing clk API.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-30 20:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-30 14:41 Jonas Bonn
2008-10-30 15:31 ` Alan Jenkins
2008-10-30 16:19 ` Jonas Bonn
2008-10-30 15:40 ` Jon Smirl
2008-10-30 16:27 ` Jonas Bonn
2008-10-30 16:39 ` Jon Smirl
2008-10-30 16:40 ` Jon Smirl
2008-10-30 17:01 ` Jonas Bonn
2008-10-30 20:13 ` Mark Brown [this message]
2008-10-30 20:15 ` Jonas Bonn
2008-10-31 11:20 ` Mark Brown
2008-11-01 10:55 ` Jonas Bonn
2008-10-30 20:08 ` Mark Brown
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