Re: [PATCH] i2c-ocores: add common clock support

[Max Filippov]

On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 9:57 PM, Wolfram Sang <wsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> My suggestion is:
>
> 1) if there is a clk node:
>         - we get the clock rate via clock framework
>         - "clock-frequency" is describing the bus speed as usual (Note
>           that parsing here can be as simple as checking for 100kHz only.
>           Although a seperate patch could probably easily add support for
>           other bus speeds to)
>
> 2?) a new binding is present to specify the IP clock speed:
>         - is this needed? is somebody using the driver without CCF?
>         - if so, the new binding is parsed and evaluated
>         - I couldn't find an existing binding to specify a clock speed.
>           Please have a look, too. Otherwise we need to introduce sth
>           like "opencores,ip-clock-khz" probably.
>         - "clock-frequency" is describing the bus speed as usual
>
> 3) only "clock-frequency" is present:
>         - we keep the current behaviour to be backwards compatible.
>         - driver should emit a warning to convert to new style
>         - must be marked deprecated everywhere
>
> The documentation should be updated accordingly.
>
> Thoughts?

I can update my patch to do (1) and (3), leaving (2) to whoever may
need that.

-- 
Thanks.
-- Max
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