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From: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
To: Mike Turquette <mturquette@linaro.org>
Cc: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>,
	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>,
	Pi-Cheng Chen <pi-cheng.chen@linaro.org>,
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	Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@arm.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] clk: mediatek: Export CPU mux clocks for CPU frequency control
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2015 14:51:30 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKohpomZtg583gwWYYAFBrskaRo4oxk33ThDi2=FEGzT_uKVEw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150311001328.14952.56422@quantum>

On 11 March 2015 at 05:43, Mike Turquette <mturquette@linaro.org> wrote:
> Sorry, I am not who you asked for advice but I will chime in anyways ;-)

Always welcome :)

> I really hate this intermediate frequency stuff in cpufreq. As we

I am starting to :)

> Furthermore any intermediate-frequency property in a Devicetree binding
> would suffer the same fate. Trying to neatly encode some weird sequence
> into this generic thing will get very ugly very fast.

Hmm..

> For proof please look at clk-divider.c, clk-gate.c, clk-mux.c or
> clk-composite.c and you'll see the result of the slow accumulation of
> lots and lots of hardware corner cases onto generic code. If I had known
> then what I know now I would not have created those generic clock types
> and I would have tried for an abstraction layer between generic stuff
> (e.g. find the best divider) and the real hardware stuff (write to the
> register). Instead I kept all of it together and now things are super
> ugly.

Yeah.

  reply	other threads:[~2015-03-12  9:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-03-04 10:49 [PATCH] clk: mediatek: Export CPU mux clocks for CPU frequency control pi-cheng.chen
2015-03-04 11:21 ` Sascha Hauer
2015-03-05  2:43   ` Pi-Cheng Chen
2015-03-05  7:42     ` Sascha Hauer
2015-03-05  8:58       ` Pi-Cheng Chen
2015-03-05  8:59       ` Viresh Kumar
2015-03-05  9:19         ` Sascha Hauer
2015-03-05  9:39           ` Pi-Cheng Chen
2015-03-05 10:51             ` Sascha Hauer
2015-03-05 11:02               ` Viresh Kumar
2015-03-11  0:13                 ` Mike Turquette
2015-03-12  9:21                   ` Viresh Kumar [this message]
2015-03-12 10:36                 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2015-03-05 11:33               ` Pi-Cheng Chen
2015-03-05 10:23           ` Viresh Kumar
2015-03-05 10:59         ` Sascha Hauer
2015-03-10 23:59         ` Mike Turquette
2015-03-12  9:22           ` Viresh Kumar
2015-03-10  1:53       ` Pi-Cheng Chen
2015-03-10  7:55         ` Sascha Hauer
2015-03-11  7:00           ` Pi-Cheng Chen
2015-07-14 12:47 [PATCH v4] " Daniel Kurtz
2015-07-15  6:38 ` [PATCH] " Pi-Cheng Chen
2015-08-03 11:13   ` Pi-Cheng Chen

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