Re: [PATCH v5 2/5] media: i2c: ov5645: Drop reading clock-frequency dt-property

[Lad, Prabhakar]

Hi Sakari,


On Mon, Apr 6, 2020 at 5:51 PM Sakari Ailus
<sakari.ailus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi Prabhakar,
>
> On Mon, Apr 06, 2020 at 05:42:38PM +0100, Lad Prabhakar wrote:
> > Modes in the driver are based on xvclk frequency fixed to 24MHz, but where
> > as the OV5645 sensor can support the xvclk frequency ranging from 6MHz to
> > 24MHz. So instead making clock-frequency as dt-property just let the
> > driver enforce the required clock frequency.
>
> Even if some current systems where the driver is used are using 24 MHz
> clock, that doesn't mean there wouldn't be systems using another frequency
> that the driver does not support right now.
>
> The driver really should not set the frequency unless it gets it from DT,
> but I think the preferred means is to use assigned-clock-rates instead, and
> not to involve the driver with setting the frequency.
>
> Otherwise we'll make it impossible to support other frequencies, at least
> without more or less random defaults.
>
Ouch! my previous version of patches switched the driver for using
assigned-clock-rates but I was asked to
not do so [1].

[1] https://patchwork.linuxtv.org/patch/62185/

Cheers,
--Prabhakar

> --
> Kind regards,
>
> Sakari Ailus