On 12/23/2013 01:06 PM, Viresh Kumar wrote:
> Ccc'ing Grant and Rob as well.
>
> On 20 December 2013 21:59, Stephen Warren <[email protected]> wrote:
>> No, I definitely don't agree here. The rules for arch/arm64 are: no
>> platform-specific code. We should immediately start planning for that.
>> If this means renaming the file that creates the virtual device from
>> tegra-cpufreq.c to something else, so be it, but we shouldn't go
>> backwards and push stuff into the arch directories.
>
> I don't mind doing this now as well if it is generic enough. I wasn't sure
> if you guys wanted to take it on now..
>
> @Bill: So, please create a separate commit for creating such file which
> would create a virtual device for probing cpufreq drivers with name picked
> from root-node. Compilation of such a file should be configurable but if
> it is compiled, then it shouldn't cause any problems if that device isn't
> used, for multiplatform kernels specially..
>
> Probably then you can widen the scope of your patchset by modifying
> some of the existing drivers which require a device to get cpufreq
> driver probed. Currently they are all making such a device from
> their arch/ stuff.
Actually, I don't have plan or resource on doing this, would it be
better that you help to do that instead? Thanks.
>
> I am not sure about the location of such file. Should this be placed in DT
> code somewhere or kept in cpufreq? Rob/Grant ??
>
Do we have consensus on where to create such file?
> --
> viresh
>
On 2 January 2014 16:38, bilhuang <[email protected]> wrote:
> Actually, I don't have plan or resource on doing this, would it be better
> that you help to do that instead? Thanks.
Point taken. I am there to help if required. So, initially you can just make
Tegra work according to the new file we were talking about. I will fix
others later.
>> I am not sure about the location of such file. Should this be placed in DT
>> code somewhere or kept in cpufreq? Rob/Grant ??
>>
> Do we have consensus on where to create such file?
Not yet, probably people were on leaves.
@Grant/Rob: Any inputs here?