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Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 17:33:01 +0100
From: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
To: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-api@vger.kernel.org,
        Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
        Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>, John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 0/8] Dynamic clock devices
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On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 07:01:50PM +0900, Paul Mundt wrote:
> While I have no strong feelings on this series one way or the other, the
> naming is a bit unfortunate. The clock device / clkdev naming is already
> in use as an extension to the clock framework and is used by a wide
> variety of embedded platforms already, with a pending patch to move it in
> to the generic namespace (grepping for clkdev will give you an idea). The
> idea behind that interface is similar in that it deals with the dynamic
> creation and teardown of clocks, but is decoupled from timekeeping.
> 
> It's also reasonable to assume that devices with dynamic clocks tracked
> through clkdev will wish to also use this interface in the timekeeping
> case, so it would be good to settle on something less ambiguous in
> advance.

Okay, I will take a look at that and try to come up with a better name
for the dynamic clock code.

Thanks,
Richard
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