Re: [RFD] Functional dependencies between devices

[Mark Brown]

On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 07:50:45AM +0100, Andrzej Hajda wrote:
> On 11/17/2015 02:55 PM, Mark Brown wrote:

> > This is going to be really common but I'm not sure I see a problem with
> > it in terms of what Raphael is proposing - could you go into more detail
> > on the problem you see here?

> If clock provider is not a device driver and it depends on clocks of
> another clock
> provider you cannot 'translate' this dependency as dependency between
> devices,

What makes you say that this is the case?  There should be nothing
stopping us having dependencies between two devices of the same type.

> so this RFD does not cover them.
> Additionally if you look into kernel there are many calls in form
> 'clk_get(NULL, name)',
> it suggests that not only clock providers are consumers without
> underlying device driver.

Like I said in my earlier reply:

| > - many clock providers, irq domains are not provided by devices,

| That seems like something we can and possibly should change if we want.

This applies just as much to consumers as to providers.

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