[RFC PATCH] dt: describe base reset signal binding

Mike Turquette mturquette at ti.com
Tue Oct 30 05:32:33 EST 2012


Quoting Stephen Warren (2012-10-23 14:45:56)
> What do people think of this? Does it sound like a good idea to go ahead
> with a reset subsystem? Should we simply add a new API to the common clock
> subsystem instead (and assume that reset and clock domains match 1:1).
> Should this be implemented as part of the generic power management domains;
> see include/linux/pm_domain.h instead?
> 

Hi Stephen,

I'm not sure a "reset subsystem" is necessary, but I also do not like
using clocks as the keys for IP reset.  I think it is more common to map
IPs to struct device, no?

And of course for clocks shared by multiple users this will not scale.

Regards,
Mike


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