Re: [PATCH 01/15] clk: sunxi-ng: Add check for minimal rate to NM PLLs

From: Maxime Ripard
Date: Mon Feb 26 2018 - 05:26:06 EST


On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 05:43:01PM +0800, Chen-Yu Tsai wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 5:38 PM, Maxime Ripard
> <maxime.ripard@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Sat, Feb 24, 2018 at 10:45:31PM +0100, Jernej Skrabec wrote:
> >> Some NM PLLs doesn't work well when their output clock rate is set below
> >> certain rate.
> >>
> >> Add support for that constrain.
> >
> > In such a case, you should round the rate to the minimum the clock can
> > operate at, and not return an error.
>
> That's true for round_rate. But what's the expected behavior of set_rate?
> AFAIK we presume all users call round_rate before set_rate, but that doesn't
> seem to be true all the time.

One of the first things that happens during a set_rate is a round_rate:
https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v4.16-rc3/source/drivers/clk/clk.c#L1873

Maxime

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