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From: olof@lixom•net (Olof Johansson)
To: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel•crashing.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs•org, paulus@samba•org, egor@pasemi•com,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb•de>,
	cpufreq@lists•linux.org.uk
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] [2.6.22] pasemi: cpufreq driver
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 15:38:02 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070426203802.GC17302@lixom.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c8fb6a47d8be41f856ab9cf19fc3814d@kernel.crashing.org>

On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 09:05:59PM +0200, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> >>Unfortunately the setting of the current active state is done to an 
> >>SDC
> >>register, while information of the states is in the PMU, so access to
> >>both is needed in the driver.
> >
> >One thing that you could do is to list only this one register of the
> >SDC in the reg property, not all of the SDC.
> 
> The system-controller node should really describe
> all of the system controller.  If the Linux driver
> needs to access two separate devices, it should
> really just do that.  Don't try to make things
> "simpler" in the device tree.
> 
> You probably should map the SDC registers in the
> platform startop code, and then have the various
> platform drivers use that.  Maybe even do an
> abstraction ;-)

Yep, it's a good idea to do and I'll look at it for 2.6.23 time frame.


Thanks,

-Olof

  reply	other threads:[~2007-04-26 20:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-04-25 20:46 [PATCH] [2.6.22] pasemi: cpufreq driver Olof Johansson
2007-04-25 23:47 ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-04-25 23:57   ` Olof Johansson
2007-04-26  1:57     ` Olof Johansson
2007-04-26  6:56   ` cbe_cpufreq crashes my machine Olof Johansson
2007-04-26  8:39     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-04-26 23:07     ` [PATCH] cell: cbe_cpufreq cleanup and crash fix Olof Johansson
2007-04-27  5:22       ` [Cbe-oss-dev] " Akinobu Mita
2007-04-27  5:32         ` Olof Johansson
2007-04-27  5:33       ` [PATCH v2] " Olof Johansson
2007-04-27  7:55         ` Christian Krafft
2007-04-26  5:37 ` [PATCH v2] [2.6.22] pasemi: cpufreq driver Olof Johansson
2007-04-26  8:55   ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-04-26 16:48     ` Olof Johansson
2007-04-26 17:11       ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-04-26 19:05         ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-04-26 20:38           ` Olof Johansson [this message]
2007-04-27  0:10             ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-04-26 20:26         ` Olof Johansson
2007-04-26 20:43           ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-04-26 10:26   ` Johannes Berg
2007-04-26 20:37     ` Olof Johansson
2007-04-27  9:40       ` Johannes Berg
2007-04-27 18:09         ` Olof Johansson
2007-04-27  5:46   ` [PATCH v3] " Olof Johansson
2007-04-29  2:50     ` Dominik Brodowski
2007-04-29  3:40       ` Stephen Rothwell
2007-04-29  4:39         ` Olof Johansson
2007-04-29  4:42       ` Olof Johansson

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