From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756832AbaFZPAi (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jun 2014 11:00:38 -0400 Received: from hqemgate16.nvidia.com ([216.228.121.65]:4959 "EHLO hqemgate16.nvidia.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753430AbaFZPAg (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jun 2014 11:00:36 -0400 X-PGP-Universal: processed; by hqnvupgp07.nvidia.com on Thu, 26 Jun 2014 07:50:41 -0700 Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2014 18:00:33 +0300 From: Peter De Schrijver To: "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" , "linux-tegra@vger.kernel.org" , Mike Turquette , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: [PATCH] clk: define and export __clk_get_debug for providers Message-ID: <20140626150033.GH3679@tbergstrom-lnx.Nvidia.com> References: <1403788921-7963-1-git-send-email-pdeschrijver@nvidia.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1403788921-7963-1-git-send-email-pdeschrijver@nvidia.com> X-NVConfidentiality: public User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 03:22:01PM +0200, Peter De Schrijver wrote: > Define and export a new function __clk_get_debug which returns the debugfs > directory entry pointer. This can be used by clock providers to add debugfs > entries which are not related to a specific clock type. Examples include the > ability to measure the rate of a clock. It can also be used by modules to > create new debugfs entries. This is useful if you want to expose features > for testing which can potentially cause system instability such as allowing > to change a clock's rate from userspace. Oops. Ignore this :)