From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933837AbbHLHvY (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Aug 2015 03:51:24 -0400 Received: from mail-wi0-f175.google.com ([209.85.212.175]:38066 "EHLO mail-wi0-f175.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933527AbbHLHvX (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Aug 2015 03:51:23 -0400 Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2015 08:51:18 +0100 From: Lee Jones To: Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: Michael Turquette , Maxime Coquelin , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , linux-clk@vger.kernel.org, Stephen Boyd , Maxime Ripard , Sascha Hauer Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC RFT 3/3] clk: introduce CLK_ENABLE_HAND_OFF flag Message-ID: <20150812075118.GU18282@x1> References: <1438974570-20812-1-git-send-email-mturquette@baylibre.com> <1438974570-20812-4-git-send-email-mturquette@baylibre.com> <20150810144811.GN3249@x1> <20150810185516.2416.32293@quantum> <20150811084329.GA13374@x1> <55C9C82F.6060401@st.com> <20150811170928.2416.70005@quantum> <20150811181713.GR18282@x1> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 12 Aug 2015, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 8:17 PM, Lee Jones wrote: > >> I think that we can come up with a reasonable DT wrapper around the > >> flag. I will be ecstatic if we can agree that the meaning of the flag > >> can be tweaked just a bit to mean, "prevent this critical clock from > >> being disabled, as it was enabled out of reset or by the bootloader, > >> until a driver claims it and calls clk_prepare_enable". > > > > Easy, how about: > > > > 'prevent_this_critical_clock_from_being_disabled_as_it_was_enabled_out_of_reset_or_by_the_bootloader_until_a_driver_claims_it_and_calls_clk_prepare_enable' > > To make it less Linux-centric: > > "Prevent this critical clock from being disabled implicitly by the OS, as it > was enabled out of reset or by the bootloader, until it's explicitly managed > by a driver." Hmm... I think you missed the giggles. :) -- Lee Jones Linaro STMicroelectronics Landing Team Lead Linaro.org │ Open source software for ARM SoCs Follow Linaro: Facebook | Twitter | Blog