From e156ee56cbe26c9e8df6619dac1a993245afc1d5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mike Turquette Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2014 14:24:38 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] doc/kernel-parameters.txt: clarify clk_ignore_unused Refine the definition around clk_ignore_unused, which caused some confusion recently on the linux-fbdev and linux-arm-kernel mailing lists[0]. [0] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/<20140929135358.GC30998@ulmo> Signed-off-by: Mike Turquette --- Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 14 +++++++++----- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index 10d51c2f10d7..0ce01fb286c4 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -605,11 +605,15 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details. clk_ignore_unused [CLK] - Keep all clocks already enabled by bootloader on, - even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful - for debug and development, but should not be - needed on a platform with proper driver support. - For more information, see Documentation/clk.txt. + Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating + clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux + device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or + by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not + force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve + those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for + debug and development, but should not be needed on a + platform with proper driver support. For more + information, see Documentation/clk.txt. clock= [BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override. [Deprecated]