[PATCH V6] ARM: bcm2835: add stub clock driver

Domenico Andreoli cavokz at gmail.com
Wed Sep 26 17:26:39 EDT 2012


On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 10:15:02AM -0600, Stephen Warren wrote:
> On 09/19/2012 02:54 AM, Domenico Andreoli wrote:
> > Hi Stephen,
> > 
> > On Sep 19, 2012 5:57 AM, "Stephen Warren" <swarren at wwwdotorg.org
> > <mailto:swarren at wwwdotorg.org>> wrote:
> >> diff --git a/drivers/clk/clk-bcm2835.c b/drivers/clk/clk-bcm2835.c
> >> new file mode 100644
> >> index 0000000..ad65f0e
> >> --- /dev/null
> >> +++ b/drivers/clk/clk-bcm2835.c
> >> @@ -0,0 +1,58 @@
> >> +/*
> >> + * Copyright (C) 2010 Broadcom
> >> + *
> >> + * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
> >> + * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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> >> + * (at your option) any later version.
> >> + *
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> >> + *
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> > 
> > why the copyright is of Broadcom? these files are written from scratch
> > or anyway being reworked quite a bit, right?
> 
> The original code in Simon's branch has this (c) message so I maintained
> it. I honestly don't know whether Simon wrote this patch from scratch or
> derived it from Broadcom code.
> 
> Given the rework I did, I suppose I should have added my (c) on this
> patchset too though; I can fix that up locally before sending the pull
> request unless you have objections.

No objections for sure. Thanks.

Domenico



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