Re: [PATCH v2 12/13] media: qcom: camss: Add support for setting CSIPHY clock name csiphyX

From: Konrad Dybcio
Date: Fri Aug 18 2023 - 08:33:02 EST


On 17.08.2023 16:38, Bryan O'Donoghue wrote:
> Several of our upstream and soon-to-be upstream SoC CAMSS dtsi declare
> csiphyX as opposed to the older clock name csiX_phy.
>
> For newer SoCs csiphyX turns out to be a clock you really need to set.
>
> On sc8280xp for example we will encounter difficult to track down and
> root-cause RX CRC errors without setting the csiX_phy clock. On sdm845 and
> sm8250 we declare the csiXphy clock but seem to get away with not setting
> it.
>
> The right approach here is to set the clock when it is declared. If a SoC
> doesn't require or a SoC driver implementer doesn't think we need, then the
> clock ought to simply be omitted from the clock list.
>
> Include csiphyX in the set of permissible strings which will subsequently
> lead to the csiphyX clock being set during csiphy_set_clock_rates() phase.
>
> Signed-off-by: Bryan O'Donoghue <bryan.odonoghue@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
So.. is this just a namechange? Is it really necessary?

Konrad