2011/6/3 Russell King - ARM Linux [off-list ref]:

On Thu, Jun 02, 2011 at 10:04:45AM -0600, Grant Likely wrote:

quoted

Right now we can't do dynamic registration for on-chip devices in a
lot of cases because we don't have the infrastructure to hook up the
associated struct clks.

I've been wondering about this, and I don't see it as a blocking problem
as you seem to be.

I assume platform devices have stable names when they're created from
the device tree? ?If yes, there's no problem having the DT start to
describe the SoC specific devices _today_ - all that the clk API using
clkdev requires is a stable device name.

when i write the following nodes in dts,

uart0: uart at 0xb0060000 {
	compatible = "sirf,uart";
	...
}

uart1: uart at 0xb0050000 {
	compatible = "sirf,uart";
	...
}

uart2: uart at 0xb0070000 {
	compatible = "sirf,uart";
	...
}

then create these platform devices by of_platform_xxx things, i get
some platform devices like the below.

b0060000.uart
b0050000.uart
b0070000.uart

so these are the "stable names" you are talking about? or something else?