[PATCH 05/16] ARM: S5PC100: new clocks definition

[Ben Dooks]

On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 10:37:59AM +0200, Marek Szyprowski wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Wednesday, May 12, 2010 9:34 AM Kukjin Kim wrote:
> 
> > ...
> > > >
> > > > Marek,
> > > >
> > > > Actually, need to modify many part to fit new clock scheme.
> > > > For example, to use clksrc_clk is easily to handle clock.
> > >
> > > I thought I covered most of the changes. Probably only the armclk
> > > related functions and a cleanup in s5pc100/mach/regs-clock.h are
> > > left and these can be easily fixed.
> > >
> > > > S.LSI already made the patch for C100 clock changing which is using
> > > > clksrc_clk structure. So may I submit it?
> > >
> > > Could you compare your version with the final version that is created
> > > by my patch series? I don't think that there will be many differences
> > > there.
> > >
> > 
> > There are defined clock source of C100 available clock in SYS.LSI patch
> > like
> > clocks defined by CLK_SRC1 register.
> > SYS.LSI has covered all possible C100 clocks in our patch.
> 
> So this is rather a question of general policy about the clocks. Do we
> really need to define them even if no driver would use it? I'm not
> convinced. On the other hand defining all clocks now may reduce the driver
> development time in the future. 

I've not really got a policy on this, when adding new SoC support I
much prefer to see what is needed to get the archicture core up before
adding lots of clocks.
  
> > So I think SYS.LSI patch provides more functionality based on Ben Dooks'
> > new clock scheme.
> > 
> > How about check/review it after my submitting?
> 
> Maybe it would be possible to adapt it in such a way that it would be an
> extension to the clocks defined by my patch series?
> 
> Ben, what do you think? Which way should we go?

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Ben

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