Re: [PATCH 2/6] net: ethernet: ti: cpts: add support for ext rftclk selection

From: Grygorii Strashko
Date: Wed Nov 30 2016 - 12:35:21 EST




On 11/30/2016 03:56 AM, Richard Cochran wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 05:04:24PM -0600, Grygorii Strashko wrote:
>> Some CPTS instances, which can be found on KeyStone 2 1/10G Ethernet
>> Switch Subsystems, can control an external multiplexer that selects
>> one of up to 32 clocks for time sync reference (RFTCLK). This feature
>> can be configured through CPTS_RFTCLK_SEL register (offset: x08).
>>
>> Hence, introduce optional DT cpts_rftclk_sel poperty wich, if present,
>> will specify CPTS reference clock. The cpts_rftclk_sel should be
>> omitted in DT if HW doesn't support this feature. The external fixed
>> rate clocks can be defined in board files as "fixed-clock".
>
> Can't you implement this using the clock tree, rather than an ad-hoc
> DT property?
>

I've thought about this, but decided to move forward with this impl
which is pretty simple. I will try.


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regards,
-grygorii