Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 18 Jul 2017 14:21:47 +0100 | From | Mark Brown <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 01/18] regmap: mmio: Add function to attach a clock |
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On Mon, Jul 17, 2017 at 11:01:07AM +0200, Maxime Ripard wrote: > On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 05:01:42PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> > > This might be problematic if the clock to enable is stored in another node. > > > Let's add a function that allows to attach a clock that has already been > > > retrieved to a regmap in order to fix this.
> > What is the use case for this?
> This is useful when the clock you want to be handled by the regmap is > not described in the device node that probed the driver, but one of > its subnode, or an another node entirely.
> We're in the latter case, where we have two controllers in the DT, but > are driven by the same driver. We'll create two regmaps, but one will > not have the proper of_node used to retrieve the clock.
I'm sorry but I'm still not seeing why you're doing this. Can you be more concrete please? [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |