Re: [RFC PATCH 1/2] PM / OPP: add support to specify phandle of another node for OPP

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On 07/30/2013 12:00 PM, Sudeep KarkadaNagesha wrote:
> From: Sudeep KarkadaNagesha <sudeep.karkadanagesha@xxxxxxx>
> 
> If more than one similar devices share the same OPPs, currently we
> need to replicate the OPP entries in all the nodes.
> 
> Few drivers like cpufreq depend on physical cpu0 node to specify the
> OPPs and only that node is referred irrespective of the logical cpu
> accessing it. Alternatively to support cpuhotplug path, few drivers
> parse all the cpu nodes for OPPs. Instead we can specify the phandle
> of the node with which the current node shares the operating points.
> 
> This patch adds support to specify the phandle in the operating points
> of any device node, where the node specified by the phandle holds the
> actual OPPs.

> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/power/opp.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/power/opp.txt

> +Optional properties:
> +- operating-points-phandle: phandle to the device node with which this

That's a funny name. Bikeshedding a bit, how about shared-operating-points?

I haven't thought at all about whether this change conceptually makes sense.
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