On 15 May 2014 19:37, Tomasz Figa <t.figa@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Rahul, Tushar, > > On 15.05.2014 15:44, Rahul Sharma wrote: >> Hi Tushar, >> >> Basically you are adding a new clock-type for Clkout. IMO clkout >> is not a special hardware. Existing clock types can be reused to >> support clkout. I see 3 major problem here: >> >> 1) Clkout -> (Mux + Gate). You clubbed mux and gate together, and >> exposing as a single clock which is something like a composite clock. >> IMO this is not a recommended way in CCF. >> >> 2) New Clock Type: Since clkout is just a combination of a simple >> mux and gate which are already supported, it is a unnecessary >> duplication. >> >> 3) Clkout registered along with CMU: which is not correct. Clkout is in PMU >> (Separate physical IP) and should be registered as a independent Clock >> provider which provides 1 mux and 1 gate clock (As if now). It should also be >> well connected with main CMU. >> >> I understand the challenge in using regmap interface for a clock provider. But >> we need to identify a clean solution. IMHO a independent clock provider with >> iomap, is relatively cleaner approach till CCF is not ready with regmap based >> reg access for clock registers. >> >> Experts!! please comment. > > It's quite unfortunate that Tushar has duplicated the effort to create a > clkout driver, considering the fact that we did have such driver > internally at SRPOL and it was quite nice and simple. > I had no idea that you had some solutions to this available to be posted :( Now that the new series is posted, I will test that at my end and update you later. > I will post a cleaned-up version today, that is about 2 times smaller in > terms of lines of added code and provides the same functionality, > without introducing custom clock types. In addition, it models the > clkout properly as a feature of PMU, not CMU (CMU only provides outputs > of particular sub-blocks that are fed into the PMU). > > Best regards, > Tomasz -- Tushar Behera -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-samsung-soc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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