Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 20 Mar 2012 19:14:41 +0100 | From | Sascha Hauer <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/2] clk: Move init fields from clk to clk_hw |
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On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 03:17:10AM -0700, Saravana Kannan wrote: > > On Tue, March 20, 2012 2:40 am, Sascha Hauer wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 12:54:55AM -0700, Saravana Kannan wrote: > >> > > I am using these functions and don't need a static array, I just call > > the functions with the desired parameters. > > Sure, then let's leave it in. Curious, where do you get the desired > parameters from? Is it static date in code or is it from DT? You somehow > probe it?
It's not from DT. See this thread:
http://www.spinics.net/lists/arm-kernel/msg165839.html
> > > Overall the clock framework was written in a way that we have to expose > > as little information about the internally used structs as necessary. It > > seems your patches are pulling in the opposite direction now. > > I'm not exposing anything that you don't already pass from the platform > driver. Also, you realize that this is very similar to what you suggested > with clk_initializer right? If there is a strong push, we can make a copy > of these inside the struct clk, but for these few init fields I don't see > a point (see earlier email).
The difference is that a struct clk_initializer is only used to initialize a clock and not actively used by the clock framework. But as you already mentioned using a copy inside the clock framework has the same effect.
Sascha
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