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From: rnayak@ti•com (Rajendra Nayak)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: [RFC PATCH 6/6] hwmon: OMAP4: On die temperature sensor driver
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2011 08:56:29 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E449D65.9000004@ti.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E444B8F.9060908@ti.com>

On 8/12/2011 3:07 AM, Roger Quadros wrote:
> On 08/11/2011 01:55 PM, Felipe Balbi wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 09:54:09PM +0300, Felipe Balbi wrote:
>>>>> you need some other way to handle this. Why do you need to manually set
>>>>> the rate rather than having hwmod handle this for you ?
>>>>>
>>>>> your argument that "it's a one time setting" is not enough to have this
>>>>> in the driver. Drivers should not care about clocks anymore, this should
>>>>> have been done on another layer.
>>>>
>>>> Hwmod will have no idea on the rate required.
>>>
>>> does the rate need to change ? Also, I have not mentioned hwmod anytime
>>
>> i did mention hwmod, nevermind that part. Still I'm not sure where is
>> the right place to handle this.
>>
>
> Aren't the omap_device_pm_latency callbacks the right place to do it?
>
> e.g. in the following snippet from mach-omap2/temp_sensor_device.c
>
> +static struct omap_device_pm_latency omap_temp_sensor_latency[] = {
> +	{
> +	 .deactivate_func = omap_device_idle_hwmods,
> +	 .activate_func = omap_device_enable_hwmods,
> +	 .flags = OMAP_DEVICE_LATENCY_AUTO_ADJUST,
> +	}
> +};
>
> instead of directly pointing activate_func to omap_device_enable_hwmods,
> it could point to a function that sets the required clock rate and then
> enables the hwmod.

FWIK, its a one time requirement to set the clock rate to the
right rate the device can operate in based on what a platform
supports. What you are suggesting would add the overhead of doing
this every time the device is runtime enabled/idled.

>
>
> regards,
> -roger

  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-08-12  3:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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     [not found] ` <1312979122-5896-7-git-send-email-j-keerthy@ti.com>
2011-08-10 12:46   ` [RFC PATCH 6/6] hwmon: OMAP4: On die temperature sensor driver Felipe Balbi
2011-08-11  9:57     ` J, KEERTHY
2011-08-11 10:36       ` Felipe Balbi
2011-08-11 13:00         ` J, KEERTHY
2011-08-11 14:12           ` Felipe Balbi
2011-08-11 14:25             ` Rajendra Nayak
2011-08-11 14:32             ` J, KEERTHY
2011-08-11 18:54               ` Felipe Balbi
2011-08-11 18:55                 ` Felipe Balbi
2011-08-11 21:37                   ` Roger Quadros
2011-08-12  1:02                     ` J, KEERTHY
2011-08-12  3:26                     ` Rajendra Nayak [this message]
2011-08-12  8:44                       ` Felipe Balbi
2011-08-22 23:58                       ` Kevin Hilman
2011-08-23  4:18                         ` Rajendra Nayak
2011-08-23  6:42                           ` J, KEERTHY
2011-08-23 17:15                           ` Kevin Hilman
2011-08-24  4:07                             ` Rajendra Nayak
2011-08-11 16:38           ` Guenter Roeck

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