On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 12:12:11PM -0700, York Sun wrote: > Linux experts, > > I have rewritten a driver for Silicon Labs SI5338 programmable clock chip. The > original driver was written by Andrey (CC'ed), but was floatingn outside of the > kernel. The driver was written to use sysfs as the interface, not the common > clock framework. I wonder if I have to rewrite the driver following common clock > framework. One concern is to support a feature to accept ClockBuilder (TM) > output on sysfs. I don't see sysfs support on common clock framework. Please > correct me if I am wrong. > > If not using common clock framework is acceptable, I would like to send a RFC > patch for review. > My original driver for si570 was rejected because it didn't support the clock framework, so you might face an uphill battle. SI provides a document for SI5338 describing how to configure it without using clockbuilder [1]. Can that be used to implement generic code which doesn't need clockbuilder ? Guenter --- [1] https://www.silabs.com/Support%20Documents/TechnicalDocs/Si5338-RM.pdf -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-i2c" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
