RE: drivers that require headers in mach-omap

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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Mike Chan [mailto:mike@xxxxxxxxxxx]
>Sent: Thursday, July 30, 2009 6:20 PM
>To: Pandita, Vikram
>Cc: Kevin Hilman; linux-omap@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: drivers that require headers in mach-omap
>
>On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 8:44 AM, Pandita, Vikram<vikram.pandita@xxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: linux-omap-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:linux-omap-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mike
>>>Chan
>>>Sent: Tuesday, July 28, 2009 8:49 PM
>>>To: Kevin Hilman; linux-omap@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>Subject: drivers that require headers in mach-omap
>>>
>>>Omap folks, how are drivers that require access to prm and cm
>>>registers via cm_read_mod_reg() etc... suppose to access these?
>>>
>>>For example if drivers/usb/host/ohci-omap.c wanted to call:
>>>cm_read_mod_reg(OMAP3430ES2_USBHOST_MOD, CM_IDLEST);
>>
>> The design was supposed to encapsulate the PRCM API's from drivers.
>> Driver has control over the iclk and fclk and the clock framework would take care of any CM/PRM
>register settings.
>>
>> Accessing these registers in drivers would make the driver non-compatible for non-omap platforms.
>>
>
>Are drivers such as
>
>drivers/usb/host/ohci-omap.c
>drivers/usb/musb/omap2430.c
>
>suppose to be compatible for non-omap platforms?

As you put it, no they are not.
All PRM/CM register accesses have been restricted to mach-omap2/plat-omap parts till now.
The question to ask is, what functionality is missing on enabling say the usbhost clock that clock framework is not doing, that driver has a need to do.

>
>-- Mike
>
>>>
>>>It seems some of the headers in mach-omap2 should be in
>>>plat-omap/include/mach, or is there a more elegant way? The other
>>>alternatives are to register calls in all the board files, or #include
>>>../../.. both do not seem very elegant to me.
>>>
>>>-- Mike
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