Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] clk: Implement a clock request API

[Maxime Ripard]

Hi Stephen, Mike,

On Tue, Sep 14, 2021 at 11:35:12AM +0200, Maxime Ripard wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> This is a follow-up of the discussion here:
> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-clk/20210319150355.xzw7ikwdaga2dwhv@gilmour/
> 
> This implements a mechanism to raise and lower clock rates based on consumer
> workloads, with an example of such an implementation for the RaspberryPi4 HDMI
> controller.
> 
> There's a couple of things worth discussing:
> 
>   - The name is in conflict with clk_request_rate, and even though it feels
>     like the right name to me, we should probably avoid any confusion
> 
>   - The code so far implements a policy of always going for the lowest rate
>     possible. While we don't have an use-case for something else, this should
>     maybe be made more flexible?

This has been posted around 8 monthes ago now:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20210413101320.321584-1-maxime@xxxxxxxxxx/

I haven't had any review on this, and I'm struggling to see how we can
move forward. Given your initial reaction, I'm guessing you were a bit
reluctant at first with the approach, if so, can you share *any*
direction in which I should amend that series to support similar
features?

Maxime

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