Re: [PATCH v3 0/4] clk: st: New always-on clock domain

From: Lee Jones
Date: Mon Mar 02 2015 - 06:37:32 EST


On Mon, 02 Mar 2015, Robert Jarzmik wrote:

> Lee Jones <lee.jones@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > On Sat, 28 Feb 2015, Robert Jarzmik wrote:
> >
> >> Lee Jones <lee.jones@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> >> it doesn't specify which usecase is not covered by CLK_IGNORE_UNUSED, it
> >> says, up to my understanding, that is it another way to have to
> >> CLK_IGNORE_UNUSED flag applied.
> >
> > Well that is exactly what we're doing. Is there an issue with that?
> >
> > This is a way to do it at a platform level. It means we can support
> > multiple platforms where clocksources have been switched around
> > without writing new driver code in drivers/clk/st.
> >
> > If you have something else in mind, let me know.
> >
> >> 2) I still fail to see why this is necessary
> >> IOW why declaring the mandatory always-on clocks with the proper flag should
> >> be augmented with a new clock list. Isn't the existing flag the generic way
> >> ?
> >
> > I'm not sure what you mean by this, would you be able to expland a
> > little?
> >
> >> I might not understand the real motivation behind that of course, that's why I'm
> >> asking.
> >
> > Please bear in mind that we don't supply our clocks statically. All
> > of the information is extracted from DT, so if the always-on
> > information does reside in there, where do you propose it comes from?
>
> I thought the standard clock binding provided a way to set this flag. Now I
> crosschecked the binding, it doesn't ...
>
> My point was I didn't want the flag to be settable from 2 different places,
> where consistency was to be kept across different device-tree leafs.
>
> > We could just write this code inside our own driver and apply the
> > CLK_IGNORE_UNUSED at a local level, but that's not the generic
> > solution I am searching for.
>
> All right, I'm convinced now I undertand the flag was not settable from
> devicetree binding before this patchset.
>
> You can add to patch 3/4 :
> Reviewed-by: Robert Jarzmik <robert.jarzmik@xxxxxxx>

Until told otherwise, I'm going to apply this onto the other
patchset. This one has already been NACKed, due to DT push-back.

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