Re: [PATCH v1 1/6] DT bindings: add bindings for ov965x camera module

From: H. Nikolaus Schaller
Date: Mon Jun 26 2017 - 02:01:55 EST



> Am 24.06.2017 um 00:24 schrieb Suman Anna <s-anna@xxxxxx>:
>
> On 06/23/2017 01:59 PM, H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote:
>> Hi Suman,
>>
>>> Am 23.06.2017 um 20:05 schrieb Suman Anna <s-anna@xxxxxx>:
>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Or does it just mean that it defines the property name?
>>>>>
>>>>> Please read the documentation link I sent - it's in the very bottom and
>>>>> should have an example.
>>>>
>>>> I have seen it but it does not give me a good clue how to translate that into
>>>> correct omap3isp node setup in a specific DT. Rather it raises more questions.
>>>> Maybe because I don't understand completely what it is talking about.
>>>>
>>>> The fundamental question is if this "assigned-clock-rates" is already
>>>> handled by ov965x->clk = devm_clk_get(&client->dev, NULL); ?
>>>>
>>>> Or should we define that for the omap3isp node?
>>>>
>>>> Then of course we need no new code and just use the right property names.
>>>> And N900, N9 camera DTs should be updated.
>>>
>>> Look up of_clk_set_defaults() function in drivers/clk/clk-conf.c. This
>>> function gets invoked usually during clock registration, and also gets
>>> called in platform_drv_probe(), so the parents and clocks do get
>>> configured before your driver gets probed. So, this provides a default
>>> configuration if these properties are supplied (in either clock nodes or
>>> actual device nodes), and if your driver needs to change the rates at
>>> runtime, then you would have to do that in the driver itself.
>>
>> Ok, now I understand. Thanks!
>>
>> Quite hidden, but nice feature. I would never have thought that it exists.
>> Especially as there are no examples around omap3isp cameras...
>>
>> And an fgrep assigned-clock-rates shows not many use cases outside CPU/SoC
>> include files.
>>
>> But interestingly arch/arm/boot/dts/at91sam9g25ek.dts uses it for an ovti,ov2640 camera...
>>
>> So it seems that we just have to write:
>>
>> ov9655@30 {
>> compatible = "ovti,ov9655";
>> reg = <0x30>;
>> clocks = <&isp 0>; /* cam_clka */
>> assigned-clocks = <&isp 0>;
>> assigned-clock-rates = <24000000>;
>> };
>
> Yeah, that looks alright and should work.

I have tested and it works that way.

Thanks,
Nikolaus