From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757851Ab3BKQIC (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Feb 2013 11:08:02 -0500 Received: from metis.ext.pengutronix.de ([92.198.50.35]:33475 "EHLO metis.ext.pengutronix.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757783Ab3BKQIA (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Feb 2013 11:08:00 -0500 Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2013 17:07:52 +0100 From: Sascha Hauer To: Roger Quadros Cc: tony@atomide.com, Russell King , devicetree-discuss@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, balbi@ti.com, Santosh Shilimkar , linux-omap@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] ARM: OMAP2+: Allow clock alias provision from device tree Message-ID: <20130211160752.GG1906@pengutronix.de> References: <1360597464-8491-1-git-send-email-rogerq@ti.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1360597464-8491-1-git-send-email-rogerq@ti.com> X-Sent-From: Pengutronix Hildesheim X-URL: http://www.pengutronix.de/ X-IRC: #ptxdist @freenode X-Accept-Language: de,en X-Accept-Content-Type: text/plain X-Uptime: 17:04:06 up 233 days, 7:15, 74 users, load average: 1.45, 1.38, 1.48 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 2001:6f8:1178:2:21e:67ff:fe11:9c5c X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: sha@pengutronix.de X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on metis.ext.pengutronix.de); SAEximRunCond expanded to false X-PTX-Original-Recipient: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 05:44:23PM +0200, Roger Quadros wrote: > Currently on OMAP, it is not possible to specify a clock consumer > to any of the OMAP generated clocks using the device tree. This can pose > a problem for external devices that run off an OMAP clock as we > can't reliably provide a reference to the clock in the device tree. There is an established way of providing clocks in the devicetree using the clocks/clock-names properties. Wouldn't it be better using this for OMAP aswell? Sascha -- Pengutronix e.K. | | Industrial Linux Solutions | http://www.pengutronix.de/ | Peiner Str. 6-8, 31137 Hildesheim, Germany | Phone: +49-5121-206917-0 | Amtsgericht Hildesheim, HRA 2686 | Fax: +49-5121-206917-5555 |