Re: [PATCH] clk: tegra: export clock names for debugging

From: Peter De Schrijver
Date: Fri Jun 27 2014 - 08:20:23 EST


On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 05:52:16PM +0200, Stephen Warren wrote:
> On 06/26/2014 09:48 AM, Peter De Schrijver wrote:
> > When writing a module for testing or debugging purposes, there is no way to
> > get hold of clk handles. This patch solves this by exposing all valid clocks
> > as clkdev's for the virtual device tegra-clk-debug.
>
> This is to support clk_get_sys()?
>

Yes.

> I guess this seems fine, so feel free to apply it, but I slightly wonder
> why not just include this change as part of the presumably local and
> never-to-be-upstreamed test/dev module?

The idea is to allow local debug modules to get hold of the struct clk *. I
don't think that's possible without using clk_get_sys()?

Cheers,

Peter.
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