Re: [PATCH 05/11] spi/pxa2xx: make clock rate configurable from platformdata

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

On 1/8/2013 12:02 PM, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 07, 2013 at 12:44:34PM +0200, Mika Westerberg wrote:
> > If the architecture doesn't support clk framework (like x86) we need a way to
> > pass the SSP clock rate to the driver. This patch adds a field in the platform
> > data 'fixed_clk_rate' that allows passing the rate.
> No, the way to do this is to fix x86 to enable the clock API there.  The
> x86 maintainers couldn't be bothered when I submitted a patch and
> getting anyone to take a patch to make it available by default appears
> to be unreasonably hard but perhaps if someone from Intel tries the x86
> maintainers might take a patch...

OK

Please explain what you'd like to do.

I haven't seen the original patch.

> We shouldn't be adding special case code to every driver that might need
> a clock that gets used on an Intel system.

I agree with that FWIW.

Thanks,
Rafael

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