Hi Tony, On Mon, 17 Aug 2009, Tony Lindgren wrote: > * Paul Walmsley <paul@xxxxxxxxx> [090815 14:26]: > > After the clkdev conversion, struct clk .name fields are free to be > > unique and to reflect the underlying hardware naming convention. This > > is important since it is useful for some core code that is unrelated > > to the platform_device subsystem, such as the clock debugfs code and > > the omap_hwmod code, to be able to address clocks by a single unique > > identifier, since platform drivers are only weakly bound to clocks. > > So, update all of the non-unique clock names in OMAP2/3 to be unique > > names. In the future it might be ideal to ensure that the names match > > the hardware information exactly, for ease of debugging and reference. > > Giving up on the name + id combination is against what we've tried to > do with the clock framework in general. This already happened with the clkdev conversion a few months ago. At that point, device drivers address clocks with a clock alias string, e.g., "fck", plus a struct device pointer. This patch doesn't change that. What it does remove is the need for internal core code to fake up a struct device simply to access a clock. It also allows us to harmonize the clock names, used internally in core code, with the hardware reality, which uses unique names to identify clocks. - Paul -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
