Re: [RFC PATCH 3/6] PM / Voltagedomain: introduce voltage domain driver support

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On 03/10/2014 01:01 PM, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 12:41:05PM -0500, Nishanth Menon wrote:
> 
>> The only other options are:
>> a) Abstract it at a higher level at "user drivers", since they are
>> aware of the sequencing needs - but this partially defeats the
>> purpose, unless ofcourse, we do a tricky implementation such as:
>> clk a, b, c -> prenotifiers in a, postnotifiers in c (which as you
>> mentioned is a little trickier to get right).
>> b) introduce a higher level generic dvfs function[1] which does not
>> seem very attractive either.
> 
>> Any other suggestions other than limiting the usage(and documenting it
>> so) and hoping for a future evolution to take this into consideration?
> 
> Something might be doable with telling the clock API about maintianing
> ratios between clocks?  I do think we should have an idea where we'd go
> with such requirements, even if we don't currently handle it, so that we
> can hopefully avoid another round of refactoring everything but it
> doesn't seem 100% essential, just very nice to have.
> 
Mike,
Any suggestions about the above? could we use composite clocks in some
manner here(even though I think the original intent of the same was
not the same)?

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Regards,
Nishanth Menon
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