Re: [RFC PATCH 3/3] devicetree: macb: Add optional property tsu-clk

From: Harini Katakam
Date: Mon Sep 14 2015 - 00:09:45 EST


On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 10:22 PM, SÃren Brinkmann
<soren.brinkmann@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Harini,
>
> On Fri, 2015-09-11 at 01:27PM +0530, Harini Katakam wrote:
>> Add TSU clock frequency to be used for 1588 support in macb driver.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Harini Katakam <harinik@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/macb.txt | 3 +++
>> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/macb.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/macb.txt
>> index b5d7976..f7c0ea8 100644
>> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/macb.txt
>> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/macb.txt
>> @@ -19,6 +19,9 @@ Required properties:
>> Optional elements: 'tx_clk'
>> - clocks: Phandles to input clocks.
>>
>> +Optional properties:
>> +- tsu-clk: Time stamp unit clock frequency used.
>
> Why are we not using the CCF and a clk_get_rate() in the driver?
>

If the clock source was only internal, we could use this
approach as usual. But TSU clock can be configured to
come from an external clock source or internal.

Regards,
Harini
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