[PATCH 1/4] clk: select CLKDEV_LOOKUP for COMMON_CLK

Turquette, Mike mturquette at ti.com
Fri Apr 20 06:01:15 EST 2012


On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 7:59 AM, Rob Herring <robherring2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 04/18/2012 02:07 AM, Sascha Hauer wrote:
>> On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 03:13:49PM -0700, Turquette, Mike wrote:
>>> On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 1:24 PM, Rob Herring <robherring2 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> From: Rob Herring <rob.herring at calxeda.com>
>>>>
>>>> Using the common clock infrastructure without the common clkdev code makes
>>>> little sense, so select CLKDEV_LOOKUP for COMMON_CLK.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <rob.herring at calxeda.com>
>>>> ---
>>>>  drivers/clk/Kconfig |    1 +
>>>>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/drivers/clk/Kconfig b/drivers/clk/Kconfig
>>>> index 165e1fe..f05a60d 100644
>>>> --- a/drivers/clk/Kconfig
>>>> +++ b/drivers/clk/Kconfig
>>>> @@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ config HAVE_MACH_CLKDEV
>>>>  config COMMON_CLK
>>>>        bool
>>>>        select HAVE_CLK_PREPARE
>>>> +       select CLKDEV_LOOKUP
>>>>        ---help---
>>>>          The common clock framework is a single definition of struct
>>>>          clk, useful across many platforms, as well as an
>>>
>>> Hi Rob,
>>>
>>> I agree that the common clk framework is not particularly useful
>>> without clkdev.  However the core code has no dependency on clkdev.
>>> Why not just select it from an arch Kconfig, or even make it a
>>> dependency based on your own platform clock data/code?
>>
>> Selecting it from COMMON_CLK means that the compiler/linker will point
>> everybody trying to implement it without CLKDEV into the right
>> direction.
>
> Right. That was part of my rationale as well.
>
> The DT clock support is dependent on both options, so without this patch
> we'll have to add an otherwise unneeded OF_CLOCK option to select both.

Ok.  I'll take this into my -next branch.

Thanks,
Mike


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