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

From: Mike Turquette
Date: Thu Jul 12 2012 - 12:54:49 EST


On 20120712-12:50, Linus Walleij wrote:
> 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.
>

Thanks for looking into it. I think for now let's keep what we have and
we'll patch it up if bugs are reported.

Thanks again,
Mike

> Yours,
> Linus Walleij
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