[U-Boot] [PATCH v2 07/22] clock-uclass: allow disabling a peripheral clock

[Benjamin Tietz]

Hi Simon,

On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 10:02:43AM -0600, Simon Glass wrote:
> +Stephen
> 
> Hi Benjamin,
> 
> On 20 June 2016 at 12:26, Benjamin Tietz <uboot at dresden.micronet24.de> wrote:
> > From: Benjamin Tietz <benjamin at micronet24.de>
> >
> > Currently, clocks can be enabled, only. To be feature-complete - and allow
> > a bit of power-saving in applications - disabling a clock should be
> > possible, too.
> >
> > This extend the API of the DM clock driver to allow a clock to be disabled.
> >
> > The corresponding operation is optional for not breaking existing drivers.
> 
> What does this mean? I can't see how it is optional.

What was meant was:
If a driver can't handling disabling of peripherals, the request will be
ignored silently - I think, the expected behaviour.

> 
> Also please can you rebase to mainline and resend, as the API has
> changed (sorry).
... including a clk_disable.
So at least this patch can be dropped.

regards
Benjamin