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SubjectRe: [GIT PULL] DT clk binding support
On 05/21/2012 11:17 PM, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> On 05/21/12 19:15, Shawn Guo wrote:
>> On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 06:52:37PM -0500, Rob Herring wrote:
>>> As Grant states: "This proposed binding is only about one thing:
>>> attaching clock providers to clock consumers." This means you have to
>>> have at least a single provider and a single consumer defined in the DT.
>>>
>> I just read through Grant's comments over again. I agree with the
>> statement which implicitly requires the clk provider defined in DT.
>> However, for some case, this provider in DT is just a skeleton which
>> is backed by clock driver where the provider is actually defined.
>>
>> Looking at Grant's comment below, the second option is also to match
>> the clock in driver just using name. The only difference to my
>> proposal is the name here is given by the argument of phandle pointing
>> to that skeleton provider node.
>>
>> I'm fine with that. So go ahead with your bindings.
>>
>
> Can we do what the regulator framework has done and have a common
> binding of <connection_name>-clk = <&phandle>? Something like:
>
> core-clk = <&uart3_clk>
>
> and then have clk_get() use the of node of the device passed in to find
> a property named %s-clk and find the clock with the matching phandle.

Sigh... That is what we had in previous versions from over a year ago
and we moved away from that approach. The current binding has been
reviewed multiple times in the last 6 months...

The current approach is aligned with how interrupts are handled (with
the addition of a phandle). I think not having per clock property names
is easier to parse and easier to document.

> This looks like it's trying to cover both the end consumers (uart uses
> uart3_clk) and the internal clock tree consumers (a crystal oscillator
> connects to a PLL or a mux has multiple parents). We can certainly use
> these bindings for muxes and internal parent-child relationships but I
> would prefer we use different bindings for consumer bindings that match
> what regulators do today.

The binding supports either defining every last internal clock or just
the leaf clocks. I took the former route on highbank since I don't have
a lot of clocks. If I was doing imx or omap for example, I'd probably
just define all the clock controller outputs.

Rob


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