On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 9:07 PM, Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 01:29:11PM +0800, Eddie Huang wrote: >> Add clk_null, which represents clocks that can not / need not >> controlled by software. >> There are many clocks' parent set to clk_null. >> >> Signed-off-by: James Liao <jamesjj.liao@xxxxxxxxxxxx> >> Signed-off-by: Eddie Huang <eddie.huang@xxxxxxxxxxxx> >> --- >> Base on 4.1-rc1 >> >> Change-Id: I4db9b40d07e28f54f7bae9b676316cbd6a962124 >> --- >> arch/arm64/boot/dts/mediatek/mt8173.dtsi | 6 ++++++ >> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) >> >> diff --git a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/mediatek/mt8173.dtsi b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/mediatek/mt8173.dtsi >> index 924fdb6..4798f44 100644 >> --- a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/mediatek/mt8173.dtsi >> +++ b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/mediatek/mt8173.dtsi >> @@ -81,6 +81,12 @@ >> cpu_on = <0x84000003>; >> }; >> >> + clk_null: clk_null { >> + compatible = "fixed-clock"; >> + clock-frequency = <0>; >> + #clock-cells = <0>; >> + }; > > The discussion around this patch shows that we don't want to have this > clock in the device tree as it is not a hardware description. > > Ok, fine. Eddie, you told us that the rate of the current clk_null children > is not interesting. What's the motivation to send this patch anyway > then? Why can't you keep its children on the orphan list where they are > already now? > > Another possibility would be to instantiate the clk_null clock from C > code rather than from the device tree. This way we wouldn't put any > wrong descriptions into the device tree and still can implement the > support for the real parent clocks when we actually need them. Some device nodes, like mmc, use a clk_null phandle as one of their clocks: mmc1: mmc@11240000 { compatible = "mediatek,mt8173-mmc", "mediatek,mt8135-mmc"; reg = <0 0x11240000 0 0x1000>; interrupts = <GIC_SPI 72 IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_LOW>; clocks = <&pericfg CLK_PERI_MSDC30_1>, <&clk_null>; clock-names = "source", "hclk"; status = "disabled"; }; -Dan > Sascha > > -- > Pengutronix e.K. | | > Industrial Linux Solutions | http://www.pengutronix.de/ | > Peiner Str. 6-8, 31137 Hildesheim, Germany | Phone: +49-5121-206917-0 | > Amtsgericht Hildesheim, HRA 2686 | Fax: +49-5121-206917-5555 | > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html