[RFC PATCH 2/5] clk: Introduce 'clk_round_rate_nearest()'

Viresh Kumar viresh.kumar at linaro.org
Sun May 25 23:29:09 PDT 2014


On 23 May 2014 21:44, Sören Brinkmann <soren.brinkmann at xilinx.com> wrote:
> Viresh: Could you imagine something similar for cpufreq? You suggested
> migrating to Hz resolution. I guess that would ideally mean to follow
> the CCF to a 64-bit type for frequencies and increasing the resolution.
> I have a messy patch migrating cpufreq and OPP to Hz and unsigned long
> that works on Zynq. But cpufreq has so many users that it would become
> quite an undertaking.
> And we'd need some new/amended OPP DT binding.

If we are going to migrate to Hz from KHz, I think we must consider the
64 bit stuff right now, otherwise it will bite us later.

@Rafael: What do you think?



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