Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 14 Feb 2011 22:31:11 -0800 | From | Saravana Kannan <> | Subject | Re: [RFC,PATCH 2/3] clk: Generic support for fixed-rate clocks |
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On 02/14/2011 10:18 PM, Jeremy Kerr wrote:
> Because the drivers using this clock don't know that it's a fixed clock. > > For example, a uart needs to know the rate of its clock source, so that it can > set its internal divisors to get a valid baud rate. The uart driver will query > the input rate using clk_get_rate(). The driver still needs to call > clk_enable/clk_prepare/etc, because on some systems it may have a switchable > clock.
Thanks. Makes sense.
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