Common clock API for i.MX

Nicolas Pitre nico at fluxnic.net
Wed Jan 25 10:42:20 EST 2012


On Wed, 25 Jan 2012, Mark Brown wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 07:45:15AM -0600, Matt Sealey wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 2:45 AM, Russell King - ARM Linux
> 
> > > My conclusion, therefore, is that there's very little actual interest
> > > amongst the ARM community to move towards a common clk API.
> 
> > Maybe it's a chicken-egg thing; nobody wants to work on it until someone else
> > has done some legwork? :)
> 
> I do think that this is a big part of the issue, the patches have been
> floating around for ages and it's not clear when they'll manage to make
> it in (and hence when it'll be worth moving to use them).

Maybe because nobody is actively promoting them and pushing them 
forward?  It is not sufficient to just post patches to a mailing list 
and wait.


Nicolas



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