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Message-ID: <20221117115203.356vexlpca746o6m@bogus>
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2022 11:52:03 +0000
From: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@....com>
To: Manivannan Sadhasivam <manivannan.sadhasivam@...aro.org>
Cc: andersson@...nel.org, viresh.kumar@...aro.org,
Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@....com>,
krzysztof.kozlowski+dt@...aro.org, rafael@...nel.org,
robh+dt@...nel.org, johan@...nel.org, devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
linux-pm@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 0/4] qcom-cpufreq-hw: Add CPU clock provider support
On Thu, Nov 17, 2022 at 04:42:07PM +0530, Manivannan Sadhasivam wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 17, 2022 at 10:19:03AM +0000, Sudeep Holla wrote:
> >
> > Why do you need the above 3 changes if the below(4/4) will ensure
> > cpufreq_get(cpu) returns the clock frequency. I was expecting to drop the
> > whole "confusing" clock bindings and the unnecessary clock provider.
> >
> > Can't we just use cpufreq_get(cpu) ?
> >
>
> This can be possible for OPP implementations for the CPUs but not for other
> peripherals making use of OPP framework like GPU etc... Moreover this may end
> up with different code path for CPUs and other peripherals inside OPP framework.
>
Fair enough, you can use this for non-CPU devices. But you are adding this for
CPUs here. Is the consumer unaware that this is a CPU or non-CPU device ?
If so, make sense. Otherwise, it is unnecessary to go through the clk
framework to get CPU frequency.
--
Regards,
Sudeep
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