Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] Propose critical clocks

[Peng Fan]

On 9/13/2022 6:21 PM, Marco Felsch wrote:
> Hi,
>
> this proposal is to mark clocks as critical. It is somehow inspired by
> the regulator-always-on property. Since sometimes we can end in circular
> dependcies if we wanna solve the dependcies for a specific clock
> provider.
>
> The property is generic so it can be used by every hw clock provider. So
> it can be seen as generic implementation to [1].

Thanks for working on a generic solution, I think your proposal could 
also help [1] and try to resolve same issue as [2].


[1] 
https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAJ+vNU1Za2CPGVX3q4HKufsxbL5zRrk1B5CWFpKritetrTs4dA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
[2] 
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220517235919.200375-1-marex@xxxxxxx/T/#m52d6d0831bf43d5f293e35cb27f3021f278d0564

Thanks,
Peng.


> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-clk/20220913092136.1706263-1-peng.fan@xxxxxxxxxxx/
>
> Marco Felsch (2):
>    clk: add support for critical always-on clocks
>    arm64: dts: imx8mm-evk: mark 32k pmic clock as always-on
>
>   arch/arm64/boot/dts/freescale/imx8mm-evk.dtsi |  1 +
>   drivers/clk/clk.c                             | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
>   2 files changed, 19 insertions(+)