Re: [PATCH 2/2] drivers: misc: add ripple counter driver

[Andy Shevchenko]

On Sun, Feb 28, 2021 at 11:07 AM Andy Shevchenko
<andy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Friday, February 26, 2021, Rasmus Villemoes <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> The only purpose of this driver is to serve as a consumer of the input
>> clock, to prevent it from being disabled by clk_disable_unused().
>
> We have a clock API to do the same (something like marking it used or so) why do you need a driver?

Example:
https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest/source/drivers/platform/x86/pmc_atom.c#L365

If it's a DT based platform I think you can make it somehow work thru DT.

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko