[PATCH v2 3/9] arm: twr-k70f120m: clock driver for Kinetis SoC

Thomas Gleixner tglx at linutronix.de
Thu Jul 2 15:08:27 PDT 2015


On Thu, 2 Jul 2015, Paul Osmialowski wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Jul 2015, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> 
> > I wonder if you could move out the fixed rate clocks into their own
> > nodes. Are they actually controlled by the same block? If they are
> > just fixed, you can use the normal binding for fixed rate clocks
> > and only describe the clocks that are related to the driver.
> 
> In my view having these clocks grouped together looks more convincing. After
> all, they all share the same I/O regs in order to read configuration.

The fact that they share a register is not making them a group. That's
just a HW design decision and you need to deal with that by protecting
the register access, but not by trying to group them artificially at
the functional level.

Thanks,

	tglx



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