linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] User access to internal clocks

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Message-ID: <20090209171042.GA19453@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk>
Date:	Mon, 9 Feb 2009 17:10:42 +0000
From:	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>
To:	Davide Rizzo <elpa.rizzo@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-api@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.arm.linux.org.uk, ben-linux@...ff.org,
	"Hans J. Koch" <hjk@...utronix.de>, Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] User access to internal clocks

On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 06:04:29PM +0100, Davide Rizzo wrote:
> To: Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
> Cc: "Hans J. Koch" <hjk@...utronix.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
> ben-linux@...ff.org, linux-api@...r.kernel.org
> 
> This driver is for user level programs to interact with system clocks.
> It allows to read and modify rates and parents, using virtual files.
> It requires the implementation of 2 additional functions in the clk interface:
>  clk_for_each() and clk_name().
> Actually I implemented that functions only for Samsung S3C24xx platform.

NAK.

> +       name = clk_get_name(clk);

This implies that there is a 1:1 relationship between a 'name' and a
struct clk.  No such thing exists (and where it does, it's being
eliminated in ARM because it's just plain and simple WRONG.)
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