Re: [PATCH] clk: allow clocks without parents to change rate

From: Linus Walleij
Date: Thu Jul 12 2012 - 06:50:43 EST


On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 1:42 AM, Mike Turquette <mturquette@xxxxxx> wrote:

> This has been fixed in Pawell's patch, "clk: Check parent for NULL in
> clk_change_rate".

Yes, that'll probably work.

A small nitpick though:

I have slightly different semantics, Pawel's patch assigns zero if
parent is NULL, then use that as fallback, whereas I check for the
parent being NULL all the way. I was worried that the old sematics
could change like this:

So here it takes that:

+ if (clk->parent)
+ best_parent_rate = clk->parent->rate;
+

And I was cautious that if this changes the parent rate:

+ clk->ops->set_rate(clk->hw, clk->new_rate, best_parent_rate);

Then this passes the old parent rate to the recalc function:

+ clk->rate = clk->ops->recalc_rate(clk->hw, best_parent_rate);

It has no side-effects on my system but I worried about
others, so I just left the behaviour to re-read the rate from the parent
every time if possible.

Yours,
Linus Walleij
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