[PATCH v4 02/39] ARM: OMAP2+: gpmc: Adapt to HWMOD

Mohammed, Afzal afzal at ti.com
Thu May 10 01:17:39 EDT 2012


Hi Jon,

On Tue, May 08, 2012 at 20:43:19, Hunter, Jon wrote:

> >> In fact if you migrate to runtime pm then we should not have the clk_get
> >> in the gpmc_init any more.
> > 
> > Even if converted to RPM, to get clk rate, clk_get has to be done
> > somewhere, right ?
> 
> Yes exactly. However, you could now do this in the driver itself like
> the probe function. Or may be just pass the frequency of the gpmc fclk
> to the driver and let the driver convert to the period. No reason we
> need to convert to the period outside of the driver. Hence, we can keep
> the function to do the conversion static in the driver and don't need to
> expose externally.

But platform need period before driver is probed (for calculating
peripheral timings to be passed for driver)

Regards
Afzal



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