RE: [PATCH V3 1/5] thermal: qoriq: Add clock operations

[Anson Huang]

Hi, Rui

> On Tue, 2019-08-27 at 12:41 +0000, Leonard Crestez wrote:
> > On 27.08.2019 04:51, Anson Huang wrote:
> > > > In an earlier series the CLK_IS_CRITICAL flags was removed from
> > > > the TMU clock so if the thermal driver doesn't explicitly enable
> > > > it the system will hang on probe. This is what happens in
> > > > linux-next right now!
> > >
> > > The thermal driver should be built with module, so default kernel
> > > should can boot up, do you modify the thermal driver as built-in?
> > >
> > > > Unless this patches is merged soon we'll end up with a 5.4-rc1
> > > > that doesn't boot on imx8mq. An easy fix would be to drop/revert
> > > > commit
> > > > 951c1aef9691 ("clk: imx8mq: Remove CLK_IS_CRITICAL flag for
> > > > IMX8MQ_CLK_TMU_ROOT") until the thermal patches are accepted.
> > >
> > > If the thermal driver is built as module, I think no need to revert
> > > the commit, but if by default thermal driver is built-in or mod
> > > probed, then yes, it should NOT break kernel boot up.
> >
> > The qoriq_thermal driver is built as a module in defconfig and when
> > modules are properly installed in rootfs they will be automatically be
> > probed on boot and cause a hang.
> >
> > I usually run nfsroot with modules:
> >
> >      make modules_install INSTALL_MOD_PATH=/srv/nfs/imx8-root
> 
> so we need this patch shipped in the beginning of the merge window, right?
> if there is hard dependency between patches, it's better to send them in one
> series, and get shipped via either tree.

There is no hard dependency in this patch series. Previous for the TMU clock disabled
patch, since thermal driver is built as module so I did NOT found the issue. The patch
series is the correct fix.

Thanks,
Anson 

> 
> BTW, who is maintaining qoriq driver from NXP? If Anson is maintaining and
> developing this driver, it's better to update this in the driver or the
> MAINTAINER file, I will take the driver specific patches as long as we have
> ACK/Reviewed-By from the driver maintainer.
> 
> thanks,
> rui
> 
> >
> > --
> > Regards,
> > Leonard