Re: [RFC PATCH 1/1] dt-bindings: clk: Mstar msc313 clkgen mux
From: Daniel Palmer <hidden>
Date: 2021-02-13 01:18:08
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linux-arm-kernel, linux-clk
Hi Stephen, On Sat, 13 Feb 2021 at 09:11, Stephen Boyd [off-list ref] wrote:
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+examples: + - | + clkgen_mux_mspi0: clkgen_mux_mspi0 { + compatible = "mstar,msc313-clkgen-mux"; + regmap = <&clkgen>; + offset = <0xcc>; + #clock-cells = <1>; + mstar,gate = <0>; + mstar,mux-shift = <2>; + mstar,mux-width = <2>;It looks like a node-per clk sort of binding which has been rejected multiple times in the past. If the clks are spread across various devices then it sounds like the mediatek design where they have many syscon nodes that also register clks inside those register spaces. In this case, I would expect the clkgen node to be registering clks. Given that there isn't a reg property and there's these mstar specific properties like shift/width it looks really wrong. Please don't do this.
Ok. I will rethink this. One of the problems I face here is that there isn't any documentation for what the clkgen looks like. I have a list of offsets and bit positions for these muxes but very little else. Looking at the mediatek clock drivers it seems like they have a driver that consumes some register areas and then creates all of the muxes etc within those areas within the driver instead. If that's an acceptable solution I will go for that. There would probably be 2 compatible strings right now (one for the pm area and one for the normal area) and that would take a phandle to the syscon that holds the registers. Then there would be a big table of the offsets, masks etc in the driver. Thanks, Daniel