On Tue, 5 Jun 2012, Jon Hunter wrote:

> The OMAP dmtimer driver allows you to dynamically configure the functional
> clock that drives the timer logic. The dmtimer driver uses the device name and
> a "con-id" string to search for the appropriate functional clock.
> 
> Currently, we define a clock alias for each functional clock source each timer
> supports. Some functional clock sources are common to all of the timers on a
> device and so for these clock sources we can use a single alias with a unique
> con-id string.
> 
> The possible functional clock sources for an OMAP device are a 32kHz clock,
> a system (MHz range) clock and (for OMAP2 only) an external clock. By defining
> a unique con-id name for each of these (timer_32k_ck, timer_sys_ck and
> timer_ext_ck) we can eliminate a lot of the clock aliases for timers. This
> reduces code, speeds-up searches and clock initialisation time.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jon Hunter <[email protected]>

Acked-by: Paul Walmsley <[email protected]>

At some point we should probably investigate moving these aliases into the 
hwmod optional clocks, but this requires more thought.


- Paul
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