Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756341Ab1CVQwy (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Mar 2011 12:52:54 -0400 Received: from opensource.wolfsonmicro.com ([80.75.67.52]:36179 "EHLO opensource2.wolfsonmicro.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755196Ab1CVQwu (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Mar 2011 12:52:50 -0400 Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 16:52:48 +0000 From: Mark Brown To: "Nori, Sekhar" Cc: Subhasish Ghosh , "davinci-linux-open-source@linux.davincidsp.com" , "Watkins, Melissa" , open list , Samuel Ortiz , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" , "sachi@mistralsolutions.com" Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/7] mfd: add pruss mfd driver. Message-ID: <20110322165248.GF22583@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> References: <1299592667-21367-1-git-send-email-subhasish@mistralsolutions.com> <1299592667-21367-2-git-send-email-subhasish@mistralsolutions.com> <20110318123917.GC27129@sirena.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Cookie: You are always busy. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1030 Lines: 21 On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 03:05:07PM +0530, Nori, Sekhar wrote: > On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 18:09:17, Mark Brown wrote: > > ...unfortunately conflicts with this - currently all clock API > > implementations are unique to the platform and there's no way of adding > > clocks that works over multiple platforms. > Hmm, I guess I have a limited view of this. We do have drivers which > use clock API and work across OMAP and DaVinci series of ARM SoCs. > The clock implementation in this case is under mach-omap and mach-davinci > respectively. It's mostly fine from the point of view of using clocks, it's if you're trying to provide a clock that there's no API you can rely on - the clock API itself only includes the user side and every platform gets to provide its own implementation. -- 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/