[PATCH 3/3] cpufreq: Add a generic cpufreq-cpu0 driver
Shawn Guo
shawn.guo at linaro.org
Mon Jul 30 04:17:53 EDT 2012
On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 02:33:35PM +0800, Richard Zhao wrote:
> > +Generic cpufreq driver for CPU0
> It's going to have generic name if it will become more generic.
>
I'm not in the position to say that it will become even more generic.
> > +- voltage-tolerance: Specify the CPU voltage tolerance in percentage.
> Why do we have the same tolerance for all points?
Because I haven't seen any case that needs different tolerance for
different operating points.
> I think you can
> either remove tolerance or add it to opps.
I'm not going to remove it, because I have seen potential cpufreq-cpu0
candidates, e.g. omap-cpufreq, need it. It's also improper to encode
it in operating-points, since OPP library does not have it.
> > + ret = clk_set_rate(cpu_clk, freqs.new * 1000);
> Check return value and fall back to previous point if it needs?
Right, the voltage should be reverted back if clk_set_rate fails.
> > + cpu_dev->of_node = np;
> hmm.. sys dev can not set of_node when populate it?
Since the sys dev is not populated from device tree, the of_node is
not set, and we have to do it here on our own.
> And why not do it in module init?
What's the advantage of doing it in module init over here?
> static u32 max_freq = UINT_MAX / 1000; /* kHz */
> module_param(max_freq, uint, 0);
> MODULE_PARM_DESC(max_freq, "max cpu frequency in unit of kHz");
>
> It's for debug. Make sense?
>
It does not look so useful to me, as it never came to me when I was
debugging the driver.
--
Regards,
Shawn
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