linux-kernel - Re: [alsa-devel] [PATCH v6 1/3] clk: x86: Add Atom PMC platform clocks

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Date:   Thu, 22 Dec 2016 10:29:07 -0800
From:   Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...eaurora.org>
To:     Pierre-Louis Bossart <pierre-louis.bossart@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:     Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>,
        ALSA Development Mailing List <alsa-devel@...a-project.org>,
        linux-clk@...r.kernel.org, Irina Tirdea <irina.tirdea@...el.com>,
        Pierre-Louis Bossart <pierre-louis.bossart@...el.com>,
        Michael Turquette <mturquette@...libre.com>,
        "x86@...nel.org" <x86@...nel.org>,
        "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org" <linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        Darren Hart <dvhart@...radead.org>,
        Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.com>,
        platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [alsa-devel] [PATCH v6 1/3] clk: x86: Add Atom PMC platform
 clocks

On 12/21/2016 05:07 PM, Pierre-Louis Bossart wrote:
> On 12/21/16 5:05 PM, Stephen Boyd wrote:
>>
>> Ok, by clkdev design if a device is passed but there isn't a
>> match in the lookup table it allows it to match based solely on
>> the connection id. Given that the connection id is globally
>> unique this will work.
>>
>> Hopefully we don't have two of these devices with pmc_plt_clk_<n>
>> signals in a single system though. Then having the device name
>> would help differentiate between the two. And then it may make
>> sense to have some sort of ACPI lookup system, similar to how we
>> have lookups for clks in DT.
>
> So in short we keep the existing solution for now and will only use
> the device name if and when the pmc_plt_clk_<n> identifier is no
> longer unique due to hardware changes. Did I get this right?

Ok.

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