[PATCH 06/10] ARM: mx28: update clocks for dual fec support

Shawn Guo shawn.guo at freescale.com
Wed Dec 29 05:14:42 EST 2010


Hi Uwe,

On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 09:10:44AM +0100, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 08:57:34AM +0200, Baruch Siach wrote:
> > Hi Shawn,
> > 
> > On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 10:55:51PM +0800, Shawn Guo wrote:
> > > * Change fec clock registration to use con_id only for looking up,
> > >   so that dual fec driver can find the same clock for both fec0
> > >   and fec1.
> > > 
> > > * Explicitly call clk_enable for some clocks that have been on to
> > >   reflect the clock status and get usecount updated. Otherwise,
> > >   clocks could be turned off by pair call of clk_enable/clk_disable
> > >   in drivers, because of the incorrect initial usecount.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Shawn Guo <shawn.guo at freescale.com>
> > > ---
> > >  arch/arm/mach-mxs/clock-mx28.c |    7 ++++++-
> > >  1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-mxs/clock-mx28.c b/arch/arm/mach-mxs/clock-mx28.c
> > > index dd6d158..6b77aff 100644
> > > --- a/arch/arm/mach-mxs/clock-mx28.c
> > > +++ b/arch/arm/mach-mxs/clock-mx28.c
> > > @@ -603,7 +603,7 @@ _DEFINE_CLOCK(fec_clk, ENET, DISABLE, &hbus_clk);
> > >  
> > >  static struct clk_lookup lookups[] = {
> > >  	_REGISTER_CLOCK("uart", NULL, uart_clk)
> > > -	_REGISTER_CLOCK("fec.0", NULL, fec_clk)
> > > +	_REGISTER_CLOCK(NULL, "fec_clk", fec_clk)
> > 
> > Looks like a wrong use of the clk API. You should define define two clocks 
> > "fec.0" and "fec.1".
> The commit log suggests that both should enable the same (hardware)
> clock.  Still I agree with Baruch that in this case clk_get() should
> just return the same clock for both fec.0 and fec.1.
> I think it's a bit more work than just adding
> 	_REGISTER_CLOCK("fec.1", NULL, fec_clk)
> 
I originally had what you suggest above. But when I found fec driver
only calls clk_get like below, I change the code to current one to 
save one line code.

	fep->clk = clk_get(&pdev->dev, "fec_clk");

But it looks people use dev_id to address clock as the preference.
Will change it back.

> , maybe just define fec1_clk as a dummy clk with parent=fec_clk?
> 
> (And IMHO don't inlude "_clk" in clknames, that's implicit.)
> 

-- 
Regards,
Shawn




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