[PATCH 0/4] Kirkwood: minor cleanups

Ezequiel Garcia ezequiel.garcia at free-electrons.com
Mon Sep 30 17:26:16 EDT 2013


On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 11:16:50PM +0200, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> > The third and fourth patch are related: the latter strictly depends on
> > the former. The idea behind these two patches is basically to convert
> > the "keep the ethernet clocks enabled by calling clk_enable()" hack
> > into a simpler and cleaner usage of the CLK_IGNORE_UNUSED flags which
> > prevent these clocks from being ever gated.
> 
> Hi Ezequiel
> 
> This should work, but what would be nicer is to look and see if there
> is a node in DT for each device. If it does not have a node, don't set
> CLK_IGNORE_UNUSED, so that the clock does get turned off, and we save
> a bit of power. Quite a few of the kirkwood devices only have one
> ethernet.
> 

Good idea. I'll take a look at it.
-- 
Ezequiel García, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android Engineering
http://free-electrons.com



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