[PATCH 11/24] ARM: OMAP2+: clock: remove support for legacy mpurate command line param
Tero Kristo
t-kristo at ti.com
Fri Mar 6 08:10:08 PST 2015
On 03/06/2015 05:32 PM, Tony Lindgren wrote:
> * Tero Kristo <t-kristo at ti.com> [150306 04:29]:
>> The legacy support is wrong and dangerous, as it doesn't take any
>> OPPs into account and does not scale voltages. Switching mpurate should
>> be handled through cpufreq.
>
> Hmm I wonder if some systems actually rely on the mpurate cmdline
> parameter. If this cannot be fixed properly, you should at least
> print an error here.
Yea, I was kind of worried about this comment. We have also an option of
doing this through clock driver, but I was hesitant of doing this
either. Isn't having a global kernel option like this frowned upon
anyway? I believe this piece of init code gets executed on every board
on multiarch kernel.
-Tero
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