Device tree binding for DVFS table

Mark Brown broonie at opensource.wolfsonmicro.com
Sun Jul 15 17:40:34 EDT 2012


On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 12:00:14AM +0530, Prashant Gaikwad wrote:
> On Thursday 12 July 2012 09:38 AM, Prashant Gaikwad wrote:

> >About repeating frequencies, operating voltage for a frequency
> >would be the highest one mapped in the table.

This sounds very surprising...  that would generally just result in
higher power consumption.

> >I know this makes reading difficult but it provides flexibility,

> Does this explanation help?

The loss of comprehensibility seems like a really major disadvantage for
very little practical gain here.  Big arrays in DT are already hard
enough to read without adding extra complexity on top of that.
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