Re: [PATCH 2/6] dt-bindings: clk: mstar msc313 mpll binding description

[Daniel Palmer]

Hi Stephen,

On Mon, 21 Dec 2020 at 03:44, Stephen Boyd <sboyd@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Quoting Daniel Palmer (2020-12-19 22:35:41)
> > Hi Stephen,
> >
> > On Sun, 20 Dec 2020 at 12:39, Stephen Boyd <sboyd@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > +  clock-output-names:
> > > > +    minItems: 8
> > > > +    maxItems: 8
> > > > +    description: |
> > > > +      This should provide a name for the internal PLL clock and then
> > > > +      a name for each of the divided outputs.
> > >
> > > Is this necessary?
> >
> > I found without the names specified in the dt probing of muxes that
> > depend on the outputs but appear earlier didn't work.
> > Also this same PLL layout seems to be used in some other places so
> > eventually I was thinking this driver would get used for those PLLs
> > with different output names.
>
> Still seems like it could be auto-generated based on dev_name() +
> number.

At one point I had something similar to that where the output names
were generated at probe.
Without the clock outputs listed in the device tree clock muxes that
source clocks from the mpll couldn't probe properly as they couldn't
look up all of their parents if they probed before the mpll.
Maybe I'm doing something wrong there? I couldn't find a way to always
resolve all of the parents or defer the probe of the muxes until the
mpll clocks are registered.

Cheers,

Daniel