Re: [PATCH 01/22] clk: sunxi-ng: v3s: Make the ISP PLL clock public

[Maxime Ripard]

Salut Paul,

On Mon, Sep 13, 2021 at 10:53:51AM +0200, Paul Kocialkowski wrote:
> On Mon 13 Sep 21, 09:54, Maxime Ripard wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 10, 2021 at 08:41:26PM +0200, Paul Kocialkowski wrote:
> > > In order to reparent the CSI module clock to the ISP PLL via
> > > device-tree, export the ISP PLL clock declaration in the public
> > > device-tree header.
> > 
> > You use clk_set_rate_exclusive in the ISP driver on the module clock so
> > it should prevent what you're mentioning from happening.
> 
> It does, but then it breaks display support entirely (because the DRM
> driver doesn't use clk_set_rate_exclusive).
> 
> The bottomline is that using the same PLL for both display and camera
> easily results in conflicts.

The commit log should reflect that then

> > If it doesn't, then clk_set_rate_exclusive has a bug and should be
> > fixed.
> > 
> > Either way, using assigned-clock-parents is not a good solution here
> > either, it only makes sure that this is the case when probe is run.
> 
> I'm not sure what could provide better guarantees. There is a clock
> parenting API (in the clock framework) which may, but this implies
> providing the parent clock to the driver which seems way out of line
> since this is a platform-specific matter that should certainly not
> be handled by the driver.
> 
> I also tried hardcoding the reparenting bit in the CCU driver, but
> this felt less clean than doing it in device-tree.
> 
> What do you think?

This is essentially policy, and putting it in the DT fails for the
reason we already discussed, but also if we ever want to change it for
example to optimize it a bit. In this case, we would have to deal with
the old and new DT, and the possible consequences.

So yeah, hardcoding it in the clock driver seems like a more sensible
choice.

Maxime

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