Re: [PATCH v3 1/7] mfd: add pruss mfd driver.

From: Mark Brown
Date: Tue Mar 22 2011 - 12:52:57 EST


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.
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