From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030668Ab2CUKDt (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Mar 2012 06:03:49 -0400 Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.17.8]:49898 "EHLO moutng.kundenserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030290Ab2CUKDr (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Mar 2012 06:03:47 -0400 From: Arnd Bergmann To: Paul Walmsley Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 1/3] Documentation: common clk API Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 08:59:11 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.2 (Linux/3.3.0-rc1; KDE/4.3.2; x86_64; ; ) Cc: "Turquette, Mike" , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, Amit Kucheria , Nicolas Pitre , linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org, Linus Walleij , Grant Likely , Saravana Kannan , Jeremy Kerr , Magnus Damm , Deepak Saxena , patches@linaro.org, Sascha Hauer , Rob Herring , Russell King , Thomas Gleixner , Richard Zhao , Shawn Guo , Linus Walleij , Mark Brown , Stephen Boyd , linux-omap@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <1331878280-2758-1-git-send-email-mturquette@linaro.org> <201203170905.33191.arnd@arndb.de> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201203210859.11899.arnd@arndb.de> X-Provags-ID: V02:K0:A4QCZz2MiSB5URPXqiL2YFwjmmyIglLkuYUqDPwm6uW 3u/dhwD9K50pFpWSiJoTNreHYmm23lQZ/pt8Tb2zgKE0n1D9yb pbhliOpir2IFVXjqm8+OQht+S2ob3pmx2QXVMWVCXEI4qbCPfW mfCnCSH81f1fP88IsaiOAk8PO3oyJYujB23ZTfYmEP28PuMSzw 8a/Y86PmFXEfvQgz22I7GdoHQ4JjS6uOE/Dx9/8oYTYS+yYfS6 R2es0DBv41/+UEnyB3DYK9PxNAKTPmYckaCYV+FIFlV0kp1LQb g1ND+1j0Ovzi+lQlXpGYqXSgsZPYCNfwsSZHDFYB+jQFz4Tyif Di/jPBB7qq707ZTpArpI= Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tuesday 20 March 2012, Paul Walmsley wrote: > Hello Arnd, > > On Sat, 17 Mar 2012, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > > I think it's rather pointless, because the option is not going to > > be user selectable but will get selected by the platform unless I'm > > mistaken. The platform maintainers that care already know the state > > of the framework. > > This is where we have differing views, I think. Clearly, Sascha, > Saravana, Rob, and I have at least slightly different opinions on the > durability of the existing API and code. So it seems reasonable to assume > that others who have not followed the development of the common clock code > might mistake the implementation or API as being stable and well-defined. > > It sounds like the primary objection is to the use of CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL. > So here is a patch to simply note the status of this code in its Kconfig > text. Yes, looks good to me. If there are no objections, I'll apply this one. Thanks, Arnd From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: arnd@arndb.de (Arnd Bergmann) Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 08:59:11 +0000 Subject: [PATCH v7 1/3] Documentation: common clk API In-Reply-To: References: <1331878280-2758-1-git-send-email-mturquette@linaro.org> <201203170905.33191.arnd@arndb.de> Message-ID: <201203210859.11899.arnd@arndb.de> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Tuesday 20 March 2012, Paul Walmsley wrote: > Hello Arnd, > > On Sat, 17 Mar 2012, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > > I think it's rather pointless, because the option is not going to > > be user selectable but will get selected by the platform unless I'm > > mistaken. The platform maintainers that care already know the state > > of the framework. > > This is where we have differing views, I think. Clearly, Sascha, > Saravana, Rob, and I have at least slightly different opinions on the > durability of the existing API and code. So it seems reasonable to assume > that others who have not followed the development of the common clock code > might mistake the implementation or API as being stable and well-defined. > > It sounds like the primary objection is to the use of CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL. > So here is a patch to simply note the status of this code in its Kconfig > text. Yes, looks good to me. If there are no objections, I'll apply this one. Thanks, Arnd