Thread (24 messages) 24 messages, 5 authors, 2015-07-10

Re: [PATCH] arm64: dts: mt8173: add clock_null

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From: Daniel Kurtz <hidden>
Date: 2015-07-07 14:15:59
Also in: linux-arm-kernel, linux-devicetree, lkml

On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 9:07 PM, Sascha Hauer [off-list ref] wrote:
On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 01:29:11PM +0800, Eddie Huang wrote:
quoted
Add clk_null, which represents clocks that can not / need not
controlled by software.
There are many clocks' parent set to clk_null.

Signed-off-by: James Liao <jamesjj.liao-NuS5LvNUpcJWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
Signed-off-by: Eddie Huang <eddie.huang-NuS5LvNUpcJWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
---
Base on 4.1-rc1

Change-Id: I4db9b40d07e28f54f7bae9b676316cbd6a962124
---
 arch/arm64/boot/dts/mediatek/mt8173.dtsi | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/mediatek/mt8173.dtsi b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/mediatek/mt8173.dtsi
index 924fdb6..4798f44 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/mediatek/mt8173.dtsi
+++ b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/mediatek/mt8173.dtsi
@@ -81,6 +81,12 @@
              cpu_on        = <0x84000003>;
      };

+     clk_null: clk_null {
+             compatible = "fixed-clock";
+             clock-frequency = <0>;
+             #clock-cells = <0>;
+     };
The discussion around this patch shows that we don't want to have this
clock in the device tree as it is not a hardware description.

Ok, fine. Eddie, you told us that the rate of the current clk_null children
is not interesting. What's the motivation to send this patch anyway
then? Why can't you keep its children on the orphan list where they are
already now?

Another possibility would be to instantiate the clk_null clock from C
code rather than from the device tree. This way we wouldn't put any
wrong descriptions into the device tree and still can implement the
support for the real parent clocks when we actually need them.
Some device nodes, like mmc, use a clk_null phandle as one of their clocks:

mmc1: mmc@11240000 {
        compatible = "mediatek,mt8173-mmc",
                     "mediatek,mt8135-mmc";
        reg = <0 0x11240000 0 0x1000>;
        interrupts = <GIC_SPI 72 IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_LOW>;
        clocks = <&pericfg CLK_PERI_MSDC30_1>,
                 <&clk_null>;
        clock-names = "source", "hclk";
        status = "disabled";
};

-Dan

Sascha

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