Re: [PATCH v7 0/4] qcom-cpufreq-hw: Add CPU clock provider support

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On Thu, Nov 17, 2022 at 04:42:07PM +0530, Manivannan Sadhasivam wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 17, 2022 at 10:19:03AM +0000, Sudeep Holla wrote:
> > 
> > Why do you need the above 3 changes if the below(4/4) will ensure
> > cpufreq_get(cpu) returns the clock frequency. I was expecting to drop the
> > whole "confusing" clock bindings and the unnecessary clock provider.
> > 
> > Can't we just use cpufreq_get(cpu) ?
> > 
> 
> This can be possible for OPP implementations for the CPUs but not for other
> peripherals making use of OPP framework like GPU etc... Moreover this may end
> up with different code path for CPUs and other peripherals inside OPP framework.
> 

Fair enough, you can use this for non-CPU devices. But you are adding this for
CPUs here. Is the consumer unaware that this is a CPU or non-CPU device ?
If so, make sense. Otherwise, it is unnecessary to go through the clk
framework to get CPU frequency.

-- 
Regards,
Sudeep



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