[PATCH 10/11] ARM: vexpress: Add config bus components and clocks to DTs

Pawel Moll pawel.moll at arm.com
Tue Sep 4 11:37:03 EDT 2012


On Tue, 2012-09-04 at 15:31 +0100, Rob Herring wrote:
> On 09/04/2012 08:05 AM, Pawel Moll wrote:
> > On Tue, 2012-09-04 at 13:58 +0100, Rob Herring wrote:
> >>> -			sysctl at 020000 {
> >>> +			v2m_sysctl: sysctl at 020000 {
> >>>  				compatible = "arm,sp810", "arm,primecell";
> >>>  				reg = <0x020000 0x1000>;
> >>> +				clocks = <&v2m_refclk32khz>, <&v2m_refclk1mhz>, <&v2m_osc_clk0>;
> >>> +				clock-names = "refclk", "timclk", "apb_pclk";
> >>
> >> See Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/primecell.txt
> >>
> >> apb_pclk should be first in the list.
> > 
> > Hm. Why, if you don't mind me asking? The amba_get_enable_pclk()
> > explicitly asks for "apb_pclk" id:
> 
> So apb_pclk is always in the same position in the list and I had to
> define something. Clock names are supposed to be optional, so we have to
> be able to identify which clock is the bus clock without the name.
[snip]
> You're getting lucky with how clk_get is implemented. The driver should
> be more specific with which clock it wants if there is more than 1.
> Perhaps we need a clk_get_by_index() function?

But the clocking framework doesn't know what "index", while it knows
exactly what is "id" (string). How about making the clock names
obligatory in the tree when there a node has more than one clock input?
This sounds much simpler to me and seems to be in line with the clocking
API. And the apb_pclk wouldn't have to be first/last/whatever.

Paweł





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