Re: [PATCH] clk: sunxi: Extend the simple gates and handle the Allwinner H3

From: Rob Herring
Date: Mon Dec 07 2015 - 09:31:19 EST


On Sun, Dec 06, 2015 at 10:04:12AM +0100, Jean-Francois Moine wrote:
> The H3 has a clock gate definition similar to the other Allwinner SoCs,
> but with a different parent clock for each single gate.
>
> Adding the names of the parent clocks in both the source and output clocks
> permits the use of the simple-gates driver to define the bus gates
> of all known Allwinner SoCs.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jean-Francois Moine <moinejf@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> This patch replaces a part of Jens Kuske's patch
> [PATCH v5 1/4] clk: sunxi: Add H3 clocks support
> ---
> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/clock/sunxi.txt | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++
> drivers/clk/sunxi/clk-simple-gates.c | 14 ++++++++++++-
> 2 files changed, 38 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/clock/sunxi.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/clock/sunxi.txt
> index 8a47b77..5736e6d 100644
> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/clock/sunxi.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/clock/sunxi.txt
> @@ -70,6 +70,7 @@ Required properties:
> "allwinner,sun8i-a23-usb-clk" - for usb gates + resets on A23
> "allwinner,sun9i-a80-usb-mod-clk" - for usb gates + resets on A80
> "allwinner,sun9i-a80-usb-phy-clk" - for usb phy gates + resets on A80
> + "allwinner,sunxi-gates-clk" - simple gates
>
> Required properties for all clocks:
> - reg : shall be the control register address for the clock.
> @@ -93,6 +94,12 @@ The "allwinner,sun9i-a80-mmc-config-clk" clock also requires:
> - #reset-cells : shall be set to 1
> - resets : shall be the reset control phandle for the mmc block.
>
> +The "allwinner,sunxi-gates-clk" clock also requires:
> +- clock-names : corresponding names of the parent clocks
> +when the output clocks have different parents.
> +These names must be 4 characters long and must appear as a prefix in
> +the names of the output clocks. See example.
> +

I don't think you should be encoding relationships of clocks using the
name strings. We describe relationships in DT via parent/child or
phandles.

Rob

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