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Date:	Sat, 17 May 2014 00:38:05 +0200
From:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>
To:	Mike Turquette <mturquette@...aro.org>
Cc:	Heikki Krogerus <heikki.krogerus@...ux.intel.com>,
	Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@...ux.intel.com>,
	Jin Yao <yao.jin@...ux.intel.com>,
	Li Aubrey <aubrey.li@...ux.intel.com>,
	Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>,
	linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 3/4] clk: new basic clk type for fractional divider

On Thursday, May 15, 2014 09:53:49 AM Mike Turquette wrote:
> Quoting Heikki Krogerus (2014-05-15 06:40:25)
> > Fractional divider clocks are fairly common. This adds basic
> > type for them.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Heikki Krogerus <heikki.krogerus@...ux.intel.com>
> 
> Taken into clk-next.
> 
> Just FYI, there was some talk at Embedded Linux Conference on providing
> a better abstraction layer for some of these "basic" clock types. This
> abstraction would allow the basic clock types to implement the
> machine-agnostic logic (e.g. an incoming rate is divided by a value) and
> then platforms and drivers could plug in the machine-specific parts
> (e.g. divider is made up of m/n, or divider is power-of-two, or divider
> is a simple integer with min == 1 and max == 5).
> 
> All of that is to say that in time this fractional divider could go away
> once the abstraction layer allows us to fold the m/n divider stuff into
> a core divider implementation.
> 
> Nothing wrong with the patch for now, so I've taken it for 3.16.

Well, OK, but I guess [4/4] depends on it and [4/4] also depends on
[1-2/4], so how you're proposing to resolve this?

Rafael

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