[PATCH v4] clk: Add support for rate table based dividers

Turquette, Mike mturquette at ti.com
Mon Jul 2 19:33:01 EDT 2012


On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 6:36 AM, Rajendra Nayak <rnayak at ti.com> wrote:
> Some divider clks do not have any obvious relationship
> between the divider and the value programmed in the
> register. For instance, say a value of 1 could signify divide
> by 6 and a value of 2 could signify divide by 4 etc.
> Also there are dividers where not all values possible
> based on the bitfield width are valid. For instance
> a 3 bit wide bitfield can be used to program a value
> from 0 to 7. However its possible that only 0 to 4
> are valid values.
>
> All these cases need the platform code to pass a simple
> table of divider/value tuple, so the framework knows
> the exact value to be written based on the divider
> calculation and can also do better error checking.
>
> This patch adds support for such rate table based
> dividers and as part of the support adds a new
> registration function 'clk_register_divider_table()'
> and a new macro for static definition
> 'DEFINE_CLK_DIVIDER_TABLE'.
>
> Signed-off-by: Rajendra Nayak <rnayak at ti.com>

Thanks for updating this one.  I've taken it into clk-next.

Regards,
Mike



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