[PATCH v4] GPIO PL061: Adding Clk framework support

Russell King - ARM Linux linux at arm.linux.org.uk
Thu Jul 15 12:22:47 EDT 2010


On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 09:39:22PM +0530, Rabin Vincent wrote:
> In your earlier patch, you proceeded with the probe if the error from
> clk_get() was -ENOENT, but not in this version.  Isn't the -ENOENT
> special handling preferable, since it avoids the need to change all
> existing platforms?

Well, the problem is that most platforms now declare their clocks
such that asking for the pclk will match the functional clock.

I have a patch which adds dummy pclks to all ARM AMBA using platforms.
This patch comes before the pclk-using patch to so that things
shouldn't break.



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