Hi device-tree folks,
On 01/05/13 15:41, Nishanth Menon wrote:
> On 12:11-20130501, Sudeep.KarkadaNagesha@xxxxxxx 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.
> Nice, thanks.
>>
>> Few drivers like cpufreq depend on physical cpu0 node to specify the
> cpufreq-cpu0?
>> 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.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Sudeep KarkadaNagesha <sudeep.karkadanagesha@xxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/power/opp.txt | 41 +++++++++++++++++++++++
>> drivers/base/power/opp.c | 30 ++++++++++++-----
>> 2 files changed, 63 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/power/opp.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/power/opp.txt
>> index 74499e5..a659da4 100644
>> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/power/opp.txt
>> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/power/opp.txt
>> @@ -23,3 +23,44 @@ cpu@0 {
>> 198000 850000
>> >;
>> };
>> +
> Definition of operating-points is now a little different in the
> original description - it still indicates tuple {freq,voltage}, where
> as, this patch allows phandle to a different device's operating-points
> to be used. - we might want to rephrase the description.
>
> btw, to device-tree folks, I am not sure if it is OK to have different formats
> for the same property like operating-points. At least I don't seem to
> quickly be able to find any precedence.
>
Any directions on this to proceed ? Is proposed option of phandle for
OPP acceptable ?
Regards,
Sudeep
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