Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] clk: tegra: divider: Add missing check for enable-bit on rate's recalculation

From: Dmitry Osipenko
Date: Tue Oct 29 2019 - 08:50:29 EST


29.10.2019 03:14, Dmitry Osipenko ÐÐÑÐÑ:
> 28.10.2019 17:27, Peter De Schrijver ÐÐÑÐÑ:
>> On Tue, Jul 23, 2019 at 05:52:44AM +0300, Dmitry Osipenko wrote:
>>> Unset "enable" bit means that divider is in bypass mode, hence it doesn't
>>> have any effect in that case. Please note that there are no known bugs
>>> caused by the missing check.
>>>
>>
>> Technically this is not quite true, but for the purposes of CCF you can
>> treat it that way. This bits defines if the value in the lower 16 bits
>> of the divider register is used to configure the divider or if the
>> contents of the UART DLM/DLL registers is used. So the divider isn't
>> actually bypassed, it's just configured differently.
>> In practice this bit is only set when the divider is non-zero when doing
>> set rate. So the extra test isn't strictly needed as long as the sw
>> running before the kernel also ensures the bit is only set when the
>> divider is non-zero.
>>
>> Acked-by: Peter De Schrijver <pdeschrijver@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Thank you for the clarification. I hope that bootloader doesn't enable
> the divider because it looks like standard 8250 driver won't be ready
> for that. But serial-tegra driver seems should be good.

Actually, it should be good because I missed that UART clocks are
per-initialized in the clk driver init table.

I'll update commit's message and send a new version of this patch.