[PATCH v4 7/8] ARM: Exynos: switch to using generic cpufreq-cpu0 driver

Viresh Kumar viresh.kumar at linaro.org
Wed May 14 06:14:46 PDT 2014


On 14 May 2014 18:41, Heiko Stübner <heiko at sntech.de> wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, 14. Mai 2014, 18:35:29 schrieb Viresh Kumar:
>> On 14 May 2014 18:20, Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de> wrote:
>> > Could we please come up with a way to probe this from DT in the
>> > cpufreq-cpu0 driver itself, so we don't have to add a device in every
>> > platform using it?

>> Its followed that way because DT Maintainers had strong objections
>> to creating virtual device nodes and haven't allowed creation of nodes
>> for cpufreq drivers.. For which there is no physical device, as CPU already
>> has a separate node..
>
> as we already have the "enable-method" property for enabling/disabling cpus,
> would something like a "scaling-method" be feasible?

Lets see what DT maintainers have to say on this, I would rather go for a
more straight forward name: "scaling-driver" :) ..



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