[RFC PATCH] clk: add extension API
From: Mike Turquette <hidden>
Date: 2012-05-30 19:41:09
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On 20120530-01:52, Stephen Boyd wrote:
On 5/29/2012 2:58 AM, Peter De Schrijver wrote:quoted
Add an extension API for clocks. This allows clocktypes to provide extensions for features which are uncommon and cannot be easily mapped onto normal clock framework concecpts. eg: resetting blocks, configuring clock phase etc.This seems rather generic. Why not add more specific APIs/concepts like clk_reset(), clk_set_phase(), etc.? If they don't map, maybe we should make them map.
I also wonder if exposing some of these knobs should be done in the basic clock types. Meaning that instead of having additional calls in the clk.h API those calls could be exposed by the basic clock types that map to the actions. The question that needs to be answered is this: do generic drivers need access to these additional functions (clk.h) or just the platform code which implements some of the clock logic (basic clock types & platform-speciic clock types). Regards, Mike
At the least it should be documented so that people know what it should be used for.