Re: [PATCH v6 1/3] media: dt-bindings: ov8856: Document YAML bindings

[Maxime Ripard]

Hi Sakari,

On Mon, Apr 06, 2020 at 11:35:07AM +0300, Sakari Ailus wrote:
> > But that 19.2MHz is not a limitation of the device itself, it's a
> > limitation of our implementation, so we can instead implement
> > something equivalent in Linux using a clk_set_rate to 19.2MHz (to make
> > sure that our parent clock is configured at the right rate) and the
> > clk_get_rate and compare that to 19.2MHz (to make sure that it's not
> > been rounded too far apart from the frequency we expect).
> >
> > This is doing exactly the same thing, except that we don't encode our
> > implementation limitations in the DT, but in the driver instead.
>
> What I really wanted to say that a driver that doesn't get the clock
> frequency from DT but still sets that frequency is broken.
>
> This frequency is highly system specific, and in many cases only a certain
> frequency is usable, for a few reasons: On many SoCs, not all common
> frequencies can be used (e.g. 9,6 MHz, 19,2 MHz and 24 MHz; while others
> are being used as well), and then that frequency affects the usable CSI-2
> bus frequencies directly --- and of those, only safe, known-good ones
> should be used. IOW, getting the external clock frequency wrong typically
> has an effect that that none of the known-good CSI-2 bus clock frequencies
> are available.

So clock-frequency is not about the "Frequency of the xvclk clock in
Hertz", but the frequency at which that clock must run on this
particular SoC / board to be functional?

If so, then yeah, we should definitely keep it, but the documentation
of the binding should be made clearer as well.

assigned-clock-rates should still go away though.

Maxime

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