Re: [PATCH v8 4/9] phy: fsl: Add Lynx 10G SerDes driver

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On 12/6/22 21:17, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> Quoting Sean Anderson (2022-11-01 16:27:21)
>> On 11/1/22 16:10, Stephen Boyd wrote:
>> >> 
>> >> Oh, I remember why I did this. I need the reference clock for clk_hw_round_rate,
>> >> which is AFAICT the only correct way to implement round_rate.
>> >> 
>> > 
>> > Is the reference clk the parent of the clk implementing
>> > clk_ops::round_rate()?
>> 
>> Yes. We may be able to produce a given output with multiple reference
>> rates. However, the clock API provides no mechanism to say "Don't ask
>> for the parent clock to be rate X, you just tried it and the parent
>> clock can't support it." So instead, we loop over the possible reference
>> rates and pick the first one which the parent says it can round to.
>> 
> 
> Sorry, I'm lost. Why can't you loop over possible reference rates in
> determine_rate/round_rate clk op here?

This is what I do currently, but you need to have the parent clock to do
so. With your suggested method, we never actually get a struct clk(_hw)
which we can query for rate support.

--Sean



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