Re: [PATCH 1/4] clk: sunxi-ng: a10/a20: rewrite init code to a platform driver

[Maxime Ripard]

Hi,

On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 08:32:28PM +0000, Priit Laes wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 02:49:35PM +0200, Maxime Ripard wrote:
> > On Sat, Apr 18, 2020 at 01:17:27AM +0300, Priit Laes wrote:
> > > In order to register regmap for sun7i CCU, there needs to be
> > > a device structure already bound to the CCU device node.
> > > 
> > > Convert the sun4i/sun7i CCU setup to platform driver to use
> > > it later as platform device.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Priit Laes <plaes@xxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > You can't relly do that though. We have timers that need those clocks before the
> > device model is initialized.
> 
> Ok, I'm somewhat lost now... are these the affected timers on sun7i following:
> - allwinner,sun4i-a10-timer (timer@1c20c00)
> - allwinner,sun7i-a20-hstimer (hstimer@1c60000)

Yep

> Any ideas on what approach I could actually use?

I guess you could keep the CLK_OF_DECLARE registration, and then have a
platform_driver probe and register the regmap?

> Also, similar timer dependency would affect then sun6i-a31 and sun9i-a80
> platforms too...

Indeed.

Maxime

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