Subject: [PATCH RFC v4 2/2] clk: Add handling of clk parent and rate assigned from DT

From: [email-masked] (Greg KH)
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2014 09:35:00 -0700

On Tue, Apr 01, 2014 at 02:19:40PM +0100, Ben Dooks wrote:
> On 31/03/14 21:06, Greg KH wrote:
> >On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 06:41:56PM +0200, Sylwester Nawrocki wrote:
> >>This function adds a helper function to configure clock parents and rates
> >>as specified in clock-parents, clock-rates DT properties for a consumer
> >>device and a call to it before driver is bound to a device.
> >>
> >>Signed-off-by: Sylwester Nawrocki <[email-masked]>
> 
> [snip]
> 
> >
> >I don't understand why you need the driver core to initialize this one
> >type of thing?  That should be in a driver, or in a class, or at worse
> >case, the platform code.
> >
> >What makes clocks so "unique" here?
> 
> I suppose the issue here is that a lot of drivers currently use
> clocks and a number of systems have badly setup default clock trees
> at start time.

Then they should be fixed, why should _all_ Linux devices care about
such broken devices/systems?

> Mark Brown and others have argued that the management of clocks which
> is common to all devices should not live in the driver.

Then put it in the bus that initializes the devices / drivers.

thanks,

greg k-h