Re: [PATCH 01/13] clk: qcom: gcc: limit GPLL0_AO_OUT operating frequency

From: Stephen Boyd
Date: Fri Dec 21 2018 - 16:40:17 EST


Quoting Jorge Ramirez (2018-12-21 11:45:28)
> On 12/21/18 20:28, Bjorn Andersson wrote:
> >
> > Perhaps there's a better way to define that this particular clock
> > hardware can change rate, but in this implementation it must not?
>
> the initialization for this particular PLL on this particular platform
> is wrong
> as the interface does not apply to the platform needs even though it is an
> alpha_pll
>
> if the VCO is not an option -even though it reflects the platform
> constrains-
> I would suggest nullifying the alpha_pll_ops that do not apply to this
> platform:
> ie: set_rate, round_rate set to null in the probe.
>
> allowing the interface calls (ops) to go through to later on make them fail
> based on some setting would be fundamentally wrong IMO
>

We have clk_alpha_pll_postdiv_ro_ops so maybe just add another set of
those for the alpha_pll itself?