Re: [PATCH v7 1/3] Documentation: common clk API

From: Russell King - ARM Linux
Date: Wed Mar 21 2012 - 20:44:24 EST


On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 12:41:41PM -0700, Saravana Kannan wrote:
> The meaning of clk_enable/disable has been changed and they won't work
> without calling clk_prepare/unprepare. So, these are definitely new
> APIs. If it weren't new APIs, then none of the general drivers would
> need to change.

Yes and no. I disagree that the meaning of clk_enable/disable() has
changed. It hasn't. What has changed is the preconditions for calling
those functions, and necessarily so in the interest of being able to
unify the different implementations.
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