linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 9/9] clk: tegra210: Initialize PLL

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Date:	Wed, 13 Jan 2016 15:03:09 +0100
From:	Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@...il.com>
To:	Rhyland Klein <rklein@...dia.com>
Cc:	Peter De Schrijver <pdeschrijver@...dia.com>,
	Mike Turquette <mturquette@...libre.com>,
	Stephen Warren <swarren@...dotorg.org>,
	Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...eaurora.org>,
	Alexandre Courbot <gnurou@...il.com>,
	Bill Huang <bilhuang@...dia.com>, Jim Lin <jilin@...dia.com>,
	Benson Leung <bleung@...omium.org>, linux-clk@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-tegra@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 9/9] clk: tegra210: Initialize PLL_D2 to a sane rate

On Fri, Jan 08, 2016 at 01:45:14PM -0500, Rhyland Klein wrote:
> Initialize PLL_D2 to a sane rate at the start of the day.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rhyland Klein <rklein@...dia.com>
> ---
>  drivers/clk/tegra/clk-tegra210.c | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

There are a lot of assumptions in this commit message. I'm asking myself
why does it need to be initialized to any rate at all? Isn't it up to
the user driver to set the PLL to whatever it knows to be a sane rate?
Why is 594 MHz a sane rate?

A good commit message should answer those questions.

Thierry

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