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From:   Fabio Estevam <festevam@gmail.com>
Date:   Fri, 22 Mar 2019 13:24:54 -0300
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Subject: Re: [RFC 00/19] clk: imx: Switch the imx6 and imx7 to clk_hw based API
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Hi Abel,

On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 12:37 PM Abel Vesa <abel.vesa@nxp.com> wrote:
>
> This work is part of the effort of switching the entire imx clock drivers
> towards clk_hw based API. In order to do that, we have to keep the old

Maybe I missed some earlier discussions on this topic, but let me ask
a fundamental question first: what is the motivation for this API
change?

I could not find the reasoning inside the series.