[PATCH 5/5] ARM: SAMSUNG: Add to enable/disable clock on S3C PL330

Jassi Brar jassisinghbrar at gmail.com
Wed Oct 20 21:45:42 EDT 2010


On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 10:32 AM, Kyungmin Park <kmpark at infradead.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 9:58 AM, Kukjin Kim <kgene.kim at samsung.com> wrote:
>> From: Seungwhan Youn <sw.youn at samsung.com>
>>
>> This patch adds to enable/disable DMA operation clock on S3C-PL330
>> DMA controller driver.
>
> The title and description seems to clock gating but actual code is
> just enable at probe and disable at remove.
>
> Can you make it REAL clock gating, enable clock only when using?

Of course we can. But that will need some intrusive changes.
Later, we'll implement that desirable feature.
For now, many SoCs don't detect PL330 since the clocks are gated
by default and we don't enable them in driver. So, this is just to get
latest SoCs' PL330 working.



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