linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 0/4] DT clock bindings

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Date:	Wed, 13 Jun 2012 13:09:36 -0500
From:	Rob Herring <robherring2@...il.com>
To:	Peter De Schrijver <pdeschrijver@...dia.com>
CC:	"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"devicetree-discuss@...ts.ozlabs.org" 
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	"mturquette@...aro.org" <mturquette@...aro.org>,
	"s.hauer@...gutronix.de" <s.hauer@...gutronix.de>,
	"sboyd@...eaurora.org" <sboyd@...eaurora.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/4] DT clock bindings

Peter,

On 06/13/2012 10:26 AM, Peter De Schrijver wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 04:41:47PM +0200, Rob Herring wrote:
>> From: Rob Herring <rob.herring@...xeda.com>
>>
>> This series defines clock bindings for Device-Tree and adds kernel
>> support using the common clock infrastructure. The last patch enables
>> DT clock support for the Calxeda Highbank platform.
>>
>> I'm posting this again to solicit further review. There has been some
>> discussion[1], but no definite path forward. This series is not changed
>> from the last post other than rebasing to v3.5-rc2.
>>
>> Rob
>>
>> [1] http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2012-May/100932.html
>>
> 
> How would this binding work for clocks which can take a spinlock pointer as a
> init parameter (eg. clk-gate).

Other than fixed clocks, this makes no attempt at generic bindings.
There is still per clock init required which can allocate a spinlock if
necessary. If you look at the highbank code, it would be trivial to
initialize spinlocks as needed.

Rob

> Cheers,
> 
> Peter.
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