Re: RFC on cpufreq implementation

Viresh Kumar <[email protected]> Mon, 2 Feb 2015 09:28:19 +0530

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On 31 January 2015 at 05:14, Mason <[email protected]> wrote:
> I see some platforms have it in their machine-specific folder, others
> are in drivers/cpufreq. (When to use mach vs plat?)

drivers/cpufreq/

> If it's supposed to go in drivers/cpufreq, I suppose there are naming
> conventions to follow?

You can check existing drivers.

> Also, if it's in drivers/cpufreq, we are not supposed to include
> any machine-specific includes? And I'm back to my original question
> where am I supposed to store machine-specific information, such as
> register descriptions and MMIO addresses and offsets?

Define registers/etc in your driver only or somewhere in include/ .
Also, try to see if you can reuse cpufreq-dt.c, your driver wouldn't make
it to the kernel otherwise.