Re: [PATCH 2/2] clk: samsung: exynos-clkout: convert to module driver

From: Sylwester Nawrocki
Date: Fri Oct 23 2020 - 07:42:33 EST


On 10/1/20 18:56, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
The Exynos clkout driver depends on board input clock (typically XXTI or
XUSBXTI), however on Exynos4 boards these clocks were modeled as part of
SoC clocks (Exynos4 clocks driver). Obviously this is not proper, but
correcting it would break DT backward compatibility.

Both drivers - clkout and Exynos4 clocks - register the clock providers
with CLK_OF_DECLARE/OF_DECLARE_1 so their order is fragile (in the
Makefile clkout is behind Exynos4 clock). It will work only if the
Exynos4 clock driver comes up before clkout.

A change in DTS adding input clock reference to Exynos4 clocks input
PLL, see reverted commit eaf2d2f6895d ("ARM: dts: exynos: add input
clock to CMU in Exynos4412 Odroid"), caused probe reorder: the clkout
appeared before Exynos4 clock provider. Since clkout depends on Exynos4
clocks and does not support deferred probe, this did not work and caused
later failure of usb3503 USB hub probe which needs clkout:

[ 5.007442] usb3503 0-0008: unable to request refclk (-517)

The Exynos clkout driver is not a critical/core clock so there is
actually no problem in instantiating it later, as a regular module.
This removes specific probe ordering and adds support for probe
deferral.


The patch looks good to me, I have tested it on Trats2, where CLKOUT
provides master clock for the audio codec.

Tested-by: Sylwester Nawrocki <s.nawrocki@xxxxxxxxxxx>

With the debug print removed feel free to apply it through your tree.
Reviewed-by: Sylwester Nawrocki <s.nawrocki@xxxxxxxxxxx>

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Regards,
Sylwester