[PATCH 05/10] clk: Add support for simple dividers

[Saravana Kannan]

On Tue, April 19, 2011 12:32 am, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 07:45:53PM -0700, Saravana Kannan wrote:
>> On 04/18/2011 03:07 AM, Sascha Hauer wrote:
>> >On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 11:49:09AM +0200, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
>> >>On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 09:08:10PM +0200, Sascha Hauer wrote:
>> >AFAIK there are two different implementation types in the tree. Some
>> >implementations only allow to set to the exact rate round_rate returns
>> >while others round down in set_rate.
>> >
>> >Has this been specified what behaviour is expected?
>> >
>>
>> This is something I have nagged Russell once or twice about and then
>> sent out an email to the list for which there was very limited
>> response. I think clk_round_rate() is too generic and not very
>> useful.
>>
>> We should really have something like:
>> clk_set_rate_range(min, ideal, max)
> (Note this is orthogonal to the question if set_rate may barf on values
> other than the return values of round_rate.)
>
> clk_set_rate_range can even be implemented with clk_round_rate that is
> just required to fulfill:

I think it's more important that we try to find a new API that's better
than clk_round_rate(). We can worry about the specifics of the
implementation later.

Thanks,
Saravana

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