linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4/4] clk: wm831x: Add initial WM831x clock driver

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Message-ID: <20120322184415.GA3291@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Date:	Thu, 22 Mar 2012 18:44:15 +0000
From:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com>
To:	"Turquette, Mike" <mturquette@...com>
Cc:	Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@...gutronix.de>,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	Russell King <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] clk: wm831x: Add initial WM831x clock driver

On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 11:35:29AM -0700, Turquette, Mike wrote:

> I'm happy for the core to concatenate the strings when a struct device
> *dev is passed in.  However the reason I dropped this in the first
> place is that I have some ideas on providing something like clk_get
> directly from the common clk core and I hadn't figured out all of the
> details yet.  For now we can handle the string concatenation in the
> core and figure out those tricky details if/when the time comes to
> provide a clk_get which is more closely linked to the clock framework
> implementation.

Yeah, it's that sort of feature that most pushes against doing it in the
drivers - for example, the regulator API never ends up doing anything
like the concatenation.

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