Re: [PATCH RFT v2 01/14] dt-bindings: clock: qcom,rpmcc: Add a way to enable unused clock cleanup

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On 17.03.2023 19:20, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> Quoting Konrad Dybcio (2023-03-16 17:31:34)
>>
>> On 16.03.2023 23:58, Rob Herring wrote:
>>> On Wed, Mar 08, 2023 at 10:35:17PM +0100, Konrad Dybcio wrote:
>>>>  
>>>> +  qcom,clk-disable-unused:
>>>> +    type: boolean
>>>> +    description:
>>>> +      Indicates whether unused RPM clocks can be shut down with the common
>>>> +      unused clock cleanup. Requires a functional interconnect driver.
>>>
>>> I don't think this should be QCom specific. Come up with something 
>>> common (which will probably have some debate). 
>> Generally the opposite (ignoring unused clocks during the cleanup) is
>> the thing you need to opt into.
>>
>> I can however see how (especially with the focus on not breaking things
>> for older DTs) somebody else may also decide to only allow them to be
>> cleaned up conditionally (by marking the clocks that were enabled earlier
>> as enabled in Linux OR not addding clk.flags |= CLK_IGNORE_UNUSED) as we
>> do here.
>>
>> Stephen, Rob, would `clk-disable-unused` be a fitting generic property
>> name for that? Should we also think about `clk-ignore-unused` as a
>> clock-controller-specific alternative to the CCF-wide clk_ignore_unused
>> cmdline?
>>
> 
> There are multiple threads on the list about disabling unused clks.
> Moving the decision to disable unused clks to a DT property is yet
> another approach. I'd rather not do that, because it really isn't
> describing the hardware configuration. If anything, I'd expect the
> property to be describing which clks are enabled by the firmware and
> then leave the decision to disable them because they're unused up to the
> software.
After some more thinking, I realized that this could be made opt-in
simply with driver_data..

WDYT?

Konrad



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