[PATCH v4 5/5] clk: clk-mux: implement remuxing on set_rate

[Doug Anderson]

Mike,

On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 10:45 AM, Mike Turquette <mturquette at linaro.org> wrote:

>> * It seems like we can't make muxing decisions on the SoC level.
>> * Your automatic muxing patches don't hurt me and could be useful for
>> _some_ of the muxing options, just not the top PLL ones.
>
> For the time being you won't be affected by this until you start using
> .determine_rate.  Even then we have the flag which disables this
> behavior.

Yup, exactly!  :)  So I have no objections to the auto remuxing, it
just doesn't solve all of my problems.


>> ...but the only place that leaves me for my muxing needs is the device
>> tree.  ...and as Mike pointed out on IRC the device tree should
>> describe hardware, not policy.  Ick.
>
> This sounds like another vote for configtree ;-)

Yes.  It sounds like for now we're just going to carry some patches to
setup our clocks, but a configtree seems like it would solve this type
of problem.

One question to raise: if we're going to need to come up with a
solution for defining parents for things like PLLs, does it decrease
the need for the auto-remuxing patches?  AKA: if we use some type of
mechanism like configtree to specify muxing, would that be enough?  I
don't know the answer, but just thought I'd raise the question...

-Doug