[PATCH 4/4] simplefb: add clock handling code

[Maxime Ripard]

On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 02:12:30PM +0200, Thierry Reding wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 07:01:06PM +0200, Maxime Ripard wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 10:38:09AM -0600, Stephen Warren wrote:
> [...]
> > > If not, perhaps the clock driver should force the clock to be
> > > enabled (perhaps only if the DRM/KMS driver isn't enabled?).
> > 
> > I'm sorry, but I'm not going to take any code that will do that in our
> > clock driver.
> > 
> > I'm not going to have a huge list of ifdef depending on configuration
> > options to know which clock to enable, especially when clk_get should
> > have the consumer device as an argument.
> 
> Are you saying is that you want to solve a platform-specific problem by
> pushing code into simple, generic drivers so that your platform code can
> stay "clean"?

Are you saying that this driver would become "dirty" with such a patch?

If so, we really have an issue in the kernel.

-- 
Maxime Ripard, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
http://free-electrons.com
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