netdev - Re: [PATCH] net/stmmac: Use clk_prepare_enable and clk_disable

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Date:	Fri, 21 Sep 2012 16:51:28 +0530
From:	Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>
To:	Stefan Roese <sr@...x.de>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Giuseppe Cavallaro <peppe.cavallaro@...com>,
	spear-devel <spear-devel@...t.st.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net/stmmac: Use clk_prepare_enable and clk_disable_unprepare

On 21 September 2012 16:36, Stefan Roese <sr@...x.de> wrote:
> This patch fixes an issue introduced by commit ID 6a81c26f
> [net/stmmac: remove conditional compilation of clk code], which
> switched from the internal stmmac_clk_{en}{dis}able calls to
> clk_{en}{dis}able. By this, calling clk_prepare and clk_unprepare
> was removed.
>
> clk_{un}prepare is mandatory for platforms using common clock framework.
> Since these drivers are used by SPEAr platform, which supports common
> clock framework, add clk_{un}prepare() support for them. Otherwise
> the clocks are not correctly en-/disabled and ethernet support doesn't
> work.

I can't believe i have done this. :)

IIRC, when i wrote this code prepare/unprepare weren't there. And by the
time my code got merged, they were. And this mistake was missed there.

Thanks for fixing it.

Reviewed-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>
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