Re: [PATCH] clk: add DT test clock consumer driver

From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Sat Mar 16 2013 - 10:57:16 EST


On Saturday 16 March 2013, Sebastian Hesselbarth wrote:
> This driver adds a DT test clock consumer that exposes debugfs files to
> enable/disable and set/get rate of the attached programmable clock.
> During development of a i2c-attached clock generator I found it useful
> to debug the clock generator's internal pll settings by enforcing clock
> rates through debugfs.
>
> Signed-off-by: Sebastian Hesselbarth <sebastian.hesselbarth@xxxxxxxxx>

It sounds a little clumsy to have a device driver to match a device that
you create just for matching the driver.

Would it be possible to separate the debugging logic from the platform
device logic? I think it may be useful to have a debugfs or sysfs
inteface for all clocks in the system, even if that is disabled by
default or only available after manually loading a module implementing
that functionality.

Arnd
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