Re: [PATCH V2 4/9] ata/sata_mv: Remove conditional compilation of clk code

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On 4/24/2012 1:56 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> Think about this case: if you don't have the means to control the clock
> inputs to a device (for example, you don't support the clk API on your
> CPU arch) then for the device to be functional, it must be supplied with
> all its necessary clocks.  Therefore, the clock is already enabled.  It
> makes sense for the clk API to stub-out to be completely transparent and
> non-error inducing to the driver.
> 
> The problem comes with clk_get_rate().  I'd suggest merely returning zero
> for that in this case.  If the clock rate is really required by a driver,
> then the clk API would need to be enabled.

Ok. Will do as suggested. Will include the patches i dropped earlier, where
i removed macros for clk_*().

-- 
viresh

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