[PATCH v4 2/6] Documentation: common clk API

[Turquette, Mike]

On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 6:31 AM, Amit Kucheria <amit.kucheria at linaro.org> wrote:
> Tiny, tiny typo...
>
> On 11 Dec 13, Mike Turquette wrote:
>
>> +clk_set_rate deserves a special mention because it is more complex than
>> +the other operations.  There are three key concepts to the common
>> +clk_set_rate implementation:
>> +
>> +1) recursively traversing up the clk tree and changing clk rates, one
>> +parent at a time, if each clk allows it
>> +2) failing to change rate if the clk is enabled and must only change
>> +rates while disabled
>> +3) using clk rate change notifiers to allow devices to handle dynamic
>> +rate changes for clks which do support changing rates while enabled
>> +
>> +For the simple, non-recursive case the call graph looks like:
>> +
>> +clk_set_rate(clk, rate);
>> +     __clk_set_rate(clk, rate);
>> +             clk->round_rate(clk, rate *parent_rate);
>                                      ^^^^^^^^
>
> need a comma here? The next sentence kept me busy for 5 mins.

Thanks, will fix in next submission (along with general rework of
messy documentation).

Mike

>
>> +             clk->set_rate(clk, rate);
>> +
>> +You might be wondering what that third paramater in .round_rate is.  If
>> +a clk supports the CLK_PARENT_SET_RATE flag then that enables it's
>> +hardware-specific .round_rate function to provide a new rate that the
>> +parent should transition to.  For example, imagine a rate-adjustable clk
>> +A that is the parent of clk B, which has a fixed divider of 2.