[PULL REQUEST v2] ARM: kirkwood: fdt: convert kirkwood init funcs to fdt
Jason
jason at lakedaemon.net
Mon Mar 5 16:17:37 EST 2012
On Mon, Mar 05, 2012 at 03:43:42PM -0500, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> On Mon, 5 Mar 2012, Jason wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Mar 05, 2012 at 08:16:26PM +0000, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > > On Monday 05 March 2012, Jason wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > The clock frequency part being hardcoded to 200000 in the common .dtsi
> > > > > file looks wrong. The clock may differ, and it used to (and should) be
> > > > > probed at run time, please see kirkwood_find_tclk().
> > > >
> > > > So, should I EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kirkwood_find_tclk); and have each driver
> > > > call it?
> > >
> > > If the drivers want to use it, I think it has to be orion_find_tclk for
> > > drivers that are shared between multiple plat-orion platforms.
> >
> > That's pretty much all of them :-)
> >
> > I'll rename it and move it to plat-orion/common.c. This'll be fun.
>
> No no... This is not a function which is generic at all. The _result_
> i.e. core clock frequency value is a generic thing, not the method to
> determine it.
How about this? Export a global variable, orion_tclk, and a function to
read it. Then, make sure each sub arch sets the global. Does this
sound viable until common clk lands?
thx,
Jason.
btw - when I received your email I was in the middle of convincing
myself that I could hack together a common orion_find_tclk(). It was
rapidly becoming a bad idea. :-)
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