[RFC PATCH 0/8] clk: qoriq: Move chip-specific knowledge into driver

Scott Wood scottwood at freescale.com
Sat Aug 15 16:43:37 AEST 2015


On Tue, 2015-08-11 at 11:25 -0700, Michael Turquette wrote:
> Hi Scott,
> 
> Quoting Scott Wood (2015-06-18 19:49:10)
> > The existing device tree bindings are error-prone and inflexible. 
> > Correct the mistake by moving the knowledge into the driver, which
> > has more flexibility in describing the quirks of each chip.  This leaves
> > the device tree to its proper role of identifying a programming interface
> > rather than describing its individual registers.
> 
> Sorry for not responding to this one sooner. Fell through the cracks.
> 
> All of the changes to drives/clk/clk-qoriq.c look great to me. I assume
> you need to keep all of these patches together and want to the take
> through the freescale tree? If so feel free to add,
> 
> Acked-by: Michael Turquette <mturquette at baylibre.com>

I just sent a non-RFC v2, with improved compatibility with old device trees 
(especially ls1021a).  It depends on the cpufreq patch though (at least, to 
avoid breaking qoriq-cpufreq until that patch is merged), so I'll also need 
an ack from Rafael for that if I'm taking it through my tree.

-Scott



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