Re: [PATCH] arm64: dts: msm8916: Move smem below hwlock

[Srinivas Kandagatla]

On 23/02/16 18:47, Georgi Djakov wrote:
> On 23.02.16 Ð. 19:29, Srinivas Kandagatla wrote:
> > On 23/02/16 17:21, Georgi Djakov wrote:
> > > When the SMEM is probed it defers as it depends on the hardware lock, which
> > > is not available yet. But the SMD bus and RPM regulators and clocks depend
> > > on SMEM and they defer too. The problem with this is that the order of
> > > registering the devices is not optimal and also we may end with messed
> > > up serial console as the RPM clocks are not registered yet..
> > I noticed the same issue but was wondering why would we end up with messed up serial console?
> >
> > Could you add more details on why serial console is messed up?
> >
> > I thought, serial driver has nothing to do with the rpm clocks directly!
>
> If we don't have the rpm clocks registered, the uart clock is an orphan
> and when clk_get_rate() is called on orphan clocks it returns 0 as rate.
Shouldn't the actual uart clk provider registration fail/defer probe due 
to missing parent in this case?

--srini
> In our case the msm_serial driver calls clk_get_rate() and gets 0 rate
> as the parent rpm clock has not registered yet. The result is that the
> baudrate is set incorrectly.
>
> BR,
> Georgi