Re: [PATCH v2 3/4] media: platform: Add Renesas RZ/G2L MIPI CSI-2 receiver driver

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

Hi Prabhakar,

On Thu, Sep 22, 2022 at 3:27 PM Lad, Prabhakar
<prabhakar.csengg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 22, 2022 at 1:51 PM Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 22, 2022 at 2:34 PM Sakari Ailus
> > <sakari.ailus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > On Thu, Sep 22, 2022 at 01:08:33PM +0100, Lad, Prabhakar wrote:
> > > > > > * Switched to manually turn ON/OFF the clocks instead of pm_runtime so that
> > > > > >   the mipi/dhpy initialization happens as per the HW manual
> > > > >
> > > > > That doesn't look right. The driver doesn't use runtime PM anymore, so
> > > > > power domains may not be handled properly. What was the problem with
> > > > > clock handling using runtime PM ?
> > > > >
> > > > If we use the runtime PM all the clocks will be turned ON when we call
> > > > pm_runtime_resume_and_get() which I dont want to. As per the "Starting
> > > > reception for MIPI CSI-2 Input" section 35.3.1 for example we first
> > > > need to turn ON all the clocks and later further down the line we need
> > > > to just turn OFF VCLK -> Enable Link -> turn ON VCLK. Due to such
> > > > cases I have switched to individual clock handling.
> > >
> > > If that is the case, then you should control just that clock directly,
> > > outside runtime PM callbacks.
> > >
> > > Runtime PM may be needed e.g. for resuming a parent device.
> >
> > Exactly.
> > So probably you should not consider R9A07G044_CRU_VCLK a PM clock,
> > i.e. you need changes to rzg2l_cpg_is_pm_clk() to exclude it.
> >
> Thanks for the pointer. In that case we will have to consider
> R9A07G044_CRU_VCLK and R9A07G044_CRU_SYSCLK as not PM clocks.
>
> Does the below sound good?
> - DEF_NO_PM() macro
> - bool is_pm_clk in struct rzg2l_mod_clk.
>
> I still have to implement it, just wanted your opinion beforehand.

LGTM. Thanks!

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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