Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2012 15:07:54 +0300
From: Peter De Schrijver <pdeschrijver@nvidia.com>
To: Mike Turquette <mturquette@ti.com>
CC: Rajendra Nayak <rnayak@ti.com>, Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>,
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] clk: add extension API
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On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 09:19:16PM +0200, Mike Turquette wrote:
> On 20120530-14:58, Rajendra Nayak wrote:
> > Hi Peter,
> > 
> > On Tuesday 29 May 2012 03:28 PM, Peter De Schrijver wrote:
> > >Add an extension API for clocks. This allows clocktypes to provide extensions
> > >for features which are uncommon and cannot be easily mapped onto normal clock
> > >framework concecpts. eg: resetting blocks, configuring clock phase etc.
> > 
> > I was thinking on similar lines for OMAP wherein I need to control
> > 'hardware-auto-gating' bits on clocks which are otherwise just normal
> > gates or dividers. We just disable all of them early at boot and
> > re-enable them late in the boot process once PM kicks in.
> > 
> 
> It would be helpful to get an idea of what these different functions
> actually do.  This patch exposes a sort of poor man's ioctl/syscall
> interface (which may indeed be necessary), but I would first prefer to
> pool together everybody's needs and see if some new high-level APIs
> should be added to clk.h.
> 
> Already a clk_reset/module reset call has been discussed in this thread.
> The changelog discusses setting clock phase and Rajendra mentioned
> controlling auto-gating behavior.
> 
> Do other folks have these same needs?  What about other needs that are
> unlisted?  Please add them to the thread so we can get an idea of what
> we're up against.

* clock phase (invert or programmable delay)
* external request line configuration

Cheers,

Peter.
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