Re: [PATCH] arm64: dts: mt8173: add clock_null

[James Liao]

Hi Heiko,

On Fri, 2015-06-19 at 13:36 +0200, Heiko Stuebner wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, 18. Juni 2015, 18:15:03 schrieb Heiko Stuebner:
> > Am Donnerstag, 18. Juni 2015, 13:29:11 schrieb Eddie Huang:
> > > Add clk_null, which represents clocks that can not / need not
> > > controlled by software.
> > > There are many clocks' parent set to clk_null.
> > 
> > Devicetree is supposed to describe hardware, and ideally not what software
> > does with it. If the clock simply cannot be controlled by software, it will
> > still have a rate and I think it should probably be modelled - similarly we
> > sometimes have fixed regulators that also are not software controllable.
> > 
> > 
> > While it might be ok to define dummy clocks as a temporary stopgap, these
> > should definitly be marked as such. This clk_null at least sounds like there
> > is no plan to replace this with a real solution at some point.
> > 
> > And of course a bit of context would be cool, to know which type of clocks
> > this actually replaces.
> 
> After looking a bit more into this, I'm feel that the clk_null approach is 
> wrong.
> 
> For one, even if the clk_null stuff would be ok, the binding doc of the clock 
> controller does not describe the need of this specific clock at all.
> 
> 
> The other more important point, looking at clk-mt8173 I see at least these 
> clocks being set as children of "clk_null":
> 
> static const struct mtk_fixed_factor root_clk_alias[] __initconst = {
> 	FACTOR(CLK_TOP_CLKPH_MCK_O, "clkph_mck_o", "clk_null", 1, 1),
> 	FACTOR(CLK_TOP_DPI, "dpi_ck", "clk_null", 1, 1),
> 	FACTOR(CLK_TOP_USB_SYSPLL_125M, "usb_syspll_125m", "clk_null", 1, 1),
> 	FACTOR(CLK_TOP_HDMITX_DIG_CTS, "hdmitx_dig_cts", "clk_null", 1, 1),
> };
> 
> 
> These look more like they are fed from some external source to the clock 
> controller? I did ask Matthias but he also couldn't find anything describing 
> where these clocks actually come from.

Some clocks such as clkph_mck_o, we don't really care where they come
from and what frequencies are. We model these clocks just because they
or their derived clocks can be the source of topckgen muxes. Is there a
better way to model "don't care" clocks?


Best regards,

James



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