Re: [PATCH V8 3/3] OPP: Allow "opp-hz" and "opp-microvolt" to contain magic values

From: Rob Herring
Date: Tue Dec 26 2017 - 15:31:59 EST


On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 03:51:30PM +0530, Viresh Kumar wrote:
> On some platforms the exact frequency or voltage may be hidden from the
> OS by the firmware. Allow such configurations to pass magic values in
> the "opp-hz" or the "opp-microvolt" properties, which should be
> interpreted in a platform dependent way.
>
> Reviewed-by: Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/opp/opp.txt | 6 ++++++
> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/opp/opp.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/opp/opp.txt
> index 4e4f30288c8b..00a3bdbd0f1f 100644
> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/opp/opp.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/opp/opp.txt
> @@ -167,6 +167,12 @@ properties.
> functioning of the current device at the current OPP (where this property is
> present).
>
> +
> +On some platforms the exact frequency or voltage may be hidden from the OS by
> +the firmware and the "opp-hz" or the "opp-microvolt" properties may contain
> +magic values that represent the frequency or voltage in a firmware dependent
> +way, for example an index of an array in the firmware.

I'm still not convinced this is a good idea. If you have firmware
partially managing things, then I think we should have platform specific
bindings or drivers.

This is complex enough I'm not taking silence from Stephen as an okay.

Rob