Re: [PATCH] staging: Add Xilinx Clocking Wizard driver

[SÃren Brinkmann]

On Wed, 2014-10-01 at 10:39AM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 01, 2014 at 10:21:48AM -0700, Soren Brinkmann wrote:
> > Add a driver for the Xilinx Clocking Wizard soft IP. The clocking wizard
> > provides an AXI interface to dynamically reconfigure the clocking
> > resources of Xilinx FPGAs.
> 
> Why not just do the few things you have on the TODO list and get it
> merged to the "proper" part of the kernel, keeping it out of the staging
> tree?

The few things are not that easy and as I mention in the TODO file,
there are some patches on LKML that would greatly simplify this
driver/reduce the need for code duplication.
I thought this is a good way to wait for those parts to mature while
people could already use the driver as passive part in their clock tree.

	SÃren
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