On 14/10/07 16:42 -0600, Grant Likely wrote:
> On 10/14/07, Domen Puncer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Use clocks subsystem in spi driver.
> 
> I don't understand the advantage of this approach.  Is the current code 
> broken?

Actually the calculations are broken. But ok, fix doesn't need to be like this.

And it wasn't my idea to use clk.h :-)
http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/linuxppc-embedded/patch?id=11186

> 
> I agree that abstraction is good; but in this case it seems these two
> patches add a lot of code for a very simple calculation.  Also, there
> is exactly 2 chips that use these devices, the mpc5200 and the
> mpc5200b, and they are both wired up in exactly the same way.  I'm
> inclined to believe that splitting of reading of the CDM into a
> separate driver (or at least using the clk infrastructure) is over the
> edge of diminishing returns.  However, I could be convinced that
> having a utility function for setting the PSC clock rate is a useful
> thing, but until arch/ppc goes away, you should support it in both
> arch/ppc and arch/powerpc.
> 
> Cheers,
> g.
> 
> -- 
> Grant Likely, B.Sc., P.Eng.
> Secret Lab Technologies Ltd.
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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