Re: [PATCH 01/20] clk: fixed-factor: Pass clk rates change to the parent

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



Quoting Maxime Ripard (2016-06-20 01:54:58)
> On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 04:05:33PM -0700, Michael Turquette wrote:
> > Quoting Maxime Ripard (2016-05-16 05:47:01)
> > > A fixed factor clock, if it needs to change its rate, by definition do not
> > > have any choice but to modify its parent rate.
> > 
> > Logically it makes sense to always propagate the rate-change request up
> > to the parent for a fixed-factor clock if we desire to change its rate.
> > However, I wonder if doing this for all users of fixed-factor-clock in
> > DT is safe? Some users may be counting on it not changing.
> > 
> > There are 397 instances of fixed-factor-clock in .dts[i] today, so this
> > change worries me a bit.
> 
> Understood.
> 
> > 
> > > 
> > > Add the CLK_SET_RATE_PARENT flag to that clock so that it can happen
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > >  drivers/clk/clk-fixed-factor.c | 3 ++-
> > >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/drivers/clk/clk-fixed-factor.c b/drivers/clk/clk-fixed-factor.c
> > > index 75cd6c792cb8..3363abd9b4ae 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/clk/clk-fixed-factor.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/clk/clk-fixed-factor.c
> > > @@ -167,7 +167,8 @@ void __init of_fixed_factor_clk_setup(struct device_node *node)
> > >         of_property_read_string(node, "clock-output-names", &clk_name);
> > >         parent_name = of_clk_get_parent_name(node, 0);
> > >  
> > > -       clk = clk_register_fixed_factor(NULL, clk_name, parent_name, 0,
> > > +       clk = clk_register_fixed_factor(NULL, clk_name, parent_name,
> > > +                                       CLK_SET_RATE_PARENT,
> > 
> > An alternative would be to pass in the flags you want, somehow. For the
> > clock you are trying to fix, is it inside of the SoC or external? If it
> > is internal, and part of a larger clock controller driver, is this for
> > the legacy style allwinner clock drivers that put everything in DT?
> 
> It is :(
> 
> What we could do, is have an extra compatible for that clock (like
> "allwinner,sun4i-a10-pll3-x2" in that case), and set the flag only for
> that compatible.
> 
> Would that work for you

Yes, I think that is the best way forward.

> 
> > If not, it would better to initialize it statically and shove this
> > flag into the struct clk_init_data storage.
> 
> Hopefully, yes, that should be addressed by the new framework, but I
> need reviews to get it merged ;)

Will do!

Regards,
Mike

> 
> Thanks!
> Maxime
> 
> -- 
> Maxime Ripard, Free Electrons
> Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
> http://free-electrons.com
_______________________________________________
dri-devel mailing list
dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel




[Index of Archives]     [Linux DRI Users]     [Linux Intel Graphics]     [Linux USB Devel]     [Video for Linux]     [Linux Audio Users]     [Yosemite News]     [Linux Kernel]     [Linux SCSI]     [XFree86]     [Linux USB Devel]     [Video for Linux]     [Linux Audio Users]     [Linux Kernel]     [Linux SCSI]     [XFree86]
  Powered by Linux