[PATCH v2 1/7] clk: Add a generic clock infrastructure

[Richard Zhao]

On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 11:05:04AM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 04:10:26PM +0800, Richard Zhao wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 03:26:56PM -0700, Mike Turquette wrote:
> 
> snip essentially Mike's entire mail - *please* delete irrelevant quotes
> from your replies, it makes it very much easier to find the new text in
> your mail and is much more friendly to people reading mail on mobile
> devices.
I snip not enough? sorry for that. I'll be carefull.
> 
> > > +static int __clk_enable(struct clk *clk)
> > > +{
> 
> > Could you expose __clk_enable/__clk_disable? I find it hard to implement
> > clk group. clk group means, when a major clk enable/disable, it want a set
> > of other clks enable/disable accordingly.
> 
> Shouldn't this be something the core is implementing?  I'd strongly
> expect that the clock drivers are relatively dumb and delegate all the
> decision making to the core API.  Otherwise it's going to be hard for
> the core to implement any logic that involves working with more than one
> clock like rate change notification, or guarantee that driver requests
> made through the API are satisfied, as the state of the clocks will be
> changing underneath it.