Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934941AbaGYPl0 (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Jul 2014 11:41:26 -0400 Received: from top.free-electrons.com ([176.31.233.9]:56694 "EHLO mail.free-electrons.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S934878AbaGYPlU (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Jul 2014 11:41:20 -0400 Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 17:41:16 +0200 From: Thomas Petazzoni To: Rob Herring Cc: Viresh Kumar , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Stephen Boyd , Rob Herring , Mike Turquette , Nishanth Menon , Lists linaro-kernel , "linux-pm@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org" , Tomasz Figa , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Michal Simek , "devicetree@vger.kernel.org" , Simon Horman , Thomas P Abraham , Kukjin Kim , Arvind Chauhan , Sachin Kamat Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/14] cpufreq: cpu0: Extend support beyond CPU0, V2 Message-ID: <20140725174116.325608d2@free-electrons.com> In-Reply-To: References: <20140717093518.486ac244@free-electrons.com> <2399813.Puj1SZWhCh@vostro.rjw.lan> Organization: Free Electrons X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.10.1 (GTK+ 2.24.23; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hello, On Fri, 25 Jul 2014 09:29:09 -0500, Rob Herring wrote: > > Any idea on how can we get some temporary solution for 3.17 as we didn't > > conclude anything yet on bindings ? > > A temporary solution would have to be NOT in DT because once you add > something into DT you are stuck with it for some time. You could > simply support independent clocks by looking at the platform type, but > that is still risky since you may want to define the OPP in DT > differently for the 2 cases. > > The other problem with temporary solutions is once they are accepted, > people loose motivation to create the permanent solution. "Can you > take this now and I'll fix the issues later" is a red flag to > maintainers. On the Marvell Armada XP side of things, the OPPs are registered dynamically because they change from one board to the other. The only thing that is in the DT for cpufreq-generic is the clock-latency parameter. Thanks, Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/