Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 19 Nov 2015 16:35:16 +0100 | From | Maxime Ripard <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 04/19] clk: sunxi: Add TCON channel1 clock |
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On Mon, Nov 09, 2015 at 11:36:15AM +0800, Chen-Yu Tsai wrote: > >> > + sclk1_parents[0] = sclk2_name; > >> > + sclk1_parents[1] = sclk2d2_name; > >> > >> Is there any need to expose these 2 clocks via DT using of_clk_add_provider? > > > > No, as far as I'm aware, there's no user external to this clock > > driver. > > > >> Note that these complex clock trees within a clock node breaks the > >> assigned-clock-parents mechanism, as you can no longer specify the output > >> clock's direct parents. > > > > There's no point of changing the parent either. Hardware blocks are > > always connected to the leaf clock (sclk1). We could also model it as > > an extra 1-bit divider, which would simplify a bit the logic though. > > Probably not. You still have a gate to handle. It's just moving the > divider from 1 clock to the other. I think the current approach of > modeling it like the hardware is better.
Not really if you model it using sclk2 being a mux + gate, and sclk1 being a divider + gate. It works great using the composite clocks.
> About reparenting, what I meant was if sclk2 is not exposed through > of_clk_add_provider, then we can't do assigned-clocks stuff on it, > like setting a default parent or making each channel use a different > source pll.
And we don't really want to. Using the divider allow us to simply set the rate of sclk1, and the mux / divider will do the rest. Since only sclk1 is exposed to the rest of the system, we do not really care about the rate of sclk2 anyway.
> What I'm saying is if it is not expected to work with another core > binding, we should probably note it somewhere.
Indeed.
Maxime
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