[PATCH 2/2] clk: exynos4: Add alias for cpufreq related clocks

[Tushar Behera]

On 06/17/2013 10:20 AM, Tushar Behera wrote:
> On 06/11/2013 12:23 AM, Tomasz Figa wrote:
>> On Monday 10 of June 2013 09:13:11 Tushar Behera wrote:
>>> On 06/08/2013 05:20 PM, Tomasz Figa wrote:
>>>> On Thursday 06 of June 2013 16:52:28 Tushar Behera wrote:
> 
> [ ... ]
> 
>>>>>  	MUX_A(mout_core, "mout_core", mout_core_p4210,
>>>>>
>>>>> -			SRC_CPU, 16, 1, "mout_core"),
>>>>> +			SRC_CPU, 16, 1, "moutcore"),
>>>>
>>>> IMHO those typo corrections are not part of this patch.
>>>
>>> But the older drivers (before migration to CCF) were using the clock
>>> "moutcore" (not "mout_core").
>>
>> I mean, this should be placed in a separate patch, as this change is not 
>> "adding alias for cpufreq related clocks", but rather fixing a typo.
>>
> 
> Is it ok if I split this patch into 2, one adding clock alias
> 'mout_apll' and another one fixing the alias names 'mout_mpll',
> 'moutcore' and 'armclk'?
> 

I have to fix up another clock for exynos4x12 too. I feel all these
modifications are too small to justify different patches. I would modify
the commit message appropriately.


> [ ... ]
> 
>>>> Basically I don't like the idea of those global aliases, which IMHO
>>>> should be completely dropped. Someone might not like it, but I'd go
>>>> with the conversion of our cpufreq drivers to platform drivers
>>>> instead, which could receive things like clocks and regulators using
>>>> DT-based lookups.
>>> I agree. Migration of exynos-cpufreq driver as a platform driver is the
>>> best solution. But unless someone picks up that work, cpufreq support
>>> for EXYNOS4 based systems is broken because of the incorrect clock
>>> aliases.
>>
>> We have patches for this in our internal tree. I will clean them up a bit 
>> and submit soon.
>>
> 
> If you are going to submit the cpufreq driver patches for v3.11, then we
> can ignore this patchset. Otherwise, I would prefer to get these patches
> merged for v3.11 to get cpufreq working. Once the driver changes are
> incorporated, we can very well modify these later.
> 
> Thanks.
> 


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Tushar Behera