Hello, > > But the usecase might differ from board to board and that's when you get a > > problem. One user wants a clk driver another a IIO driver. so because eventually someone might want a clk driver it is preferrable to have no driver at all? > >> the ds1077 is a small, separate chip which can generate a frequency; using > >> IIO I can easily control that frequency from userspace > >> > >> clk seems to be targetted more at integrated clocksources that get > >> activated automatically when needed by other components (maybe I am wrong) > > I think there is a userspace consumer for the clk API in the making. are you referring to this? https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/2551831/ I'm trying to figure out the status... > Just to jump on the end of this conversation, sorry Peter but this one definitely > looks to me like it belongs clk rather than IIO. If there wasn't a userspace > API in the making, I'd suggest now was the time to propose one as you > clearly have an application for one. fine; so far no reasons were given does that mean iio frequency is deprecated? is there a fundamental difference between hardware supported in iio frequency and the ds1077? thanks, p. -- Peter Meerwald +43-664-2444418 (mobile) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-iio" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
