Re: [RESEND PATCH v4] clk: x86: Add Atom PMC platform clocks

[Darren Hart]

On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 11:52:38PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Oct 2016, Irina Tirdea wrote:
> > The patch has already been reviewed by Stephen Boyd [1].
> > The only remaining question is the one pointed out by Stephen:
> > "Will there be problems if this merges through clk tree? If so we
> > could take the clk driver part and the platform data include part
> > could be duplicated into both trees. Or clk tree could be pulled
> > into x86?" [1]
> 
> The proper thing to do is:
> 
> Move all that cruft including arch/x86/platform/atom/pmc_atom.c into
> drivers/platform/x86. There is nothing architecture specific in these
> files. It's pure peripheral driver enablement. So drivers/platform/x86 is
> the proper location for this. Please discuss this with Darren Hart (cc'ed).

We've been adding more of the pmc and punit drivers to drivers/platform/x86.
This makes more sense than being under "arch". Thomas and I have discussed
moving more of the non architectural stuff in arch/x86/platform to my tree under
platform/drivers/x86.

Irina, please point me at the relevant context if it's more than just this
particular patch.


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Darren Hart
Intel Open Source Technology Center