[PATCHv4 05/33] CLK: omap: add DT duplicate clock registration mechanism

Tero Kristo t-kristo at ti.com
Thu Aug 1 11:18:17 EDT 2013


On 08/01/2013 05:25 PM, Nishanth Menon wrote:
> On 07/31/2013 05:07 AM, Tero Kristo wrote:
>> On 07/30/2013 09:40 PM, Nishanth Menon wrote:
>>> On 07/23/2013 02:20 AM, Tero Kristo wrote:
>>>> Some devices require their clocks to be available with a specific
>>>> dev-id con-id mapping. With DT, the clocks can be found by default
>>>> only with their name, or alternatively through the device node of
>>>> the consumer. With drivers, that don't support DT fully yet, add
>>>> mechanism to register specific clock names.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Tero Kristo <t-kristo at ti.com>
>>>
>>> with this, should it not be enough to add clocks=<&phandle>
>>
>> Don't know, I am not an expert on DT. :)
>
> That is the usage -
> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/clock/clock-bindings.txt
>
>>
>>>
>>> I am not sure I understand what specific drivers should need to carry
>>> this "old hack" forward. More importantly, why is it preferable to carry
>>> the hack forward rather than fixing the drivers.
>>
>> At least the GP timer seems to need this, and I don't want to touch /
>> verify all the potential drivers touched by this so it is easier to
>> provide a (semi) temporary tweak.
>
> I see that GP timer nodes seem to be already device tree converted, at
> least I see the nodes in SoC.dtsi

Even if those exist, they don't seem to work. The kernel crashes without 
the alias nodes as of now.

>
> Do we know what is going on for these that need these temporary devices?
> can we do a special node property for these?
>
> I think the entire problem is coz of
> timer->fclk = clk_get(NULL, omap_hwmod_get_main_clk(oh)); in case of
> even of_populated.

I guess so, clk_get tries to look for improper clk which does not exist. 
Might be a bug with hwmod data.

>
> if we can get rid of usage of omap_hwmod_get_main_clk by catching them
> with [1], then we can force the drivers to pick up based on device node
> clocks= property.
>
> It might be easier to fix 1 driver - timer, rather than introduce am33x,
> omap4, omap5 dra7 specific "SoC clk driver".
>
> with that this entire patch becomes redundant.

It is not that simple. Looking at the architectures this set supports, I 
see clock alias nodes at least for following drivers:

- GPT timer
- USB
- DCAN
- EMAC
- VPFE
- UART
- SSI
- DSS
- security
- MMC
- MCBSP
- MCSPI

I am _not_ going to fix all of these during the initial phase. :P

But yes, eventually these should go away.

>
>
> [1]
> diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-omap2/omap_hwmod.c
> b/arch/arm/mach-omap2/omap_hwmod.c
> index da26659..2e90ab4 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/mach-omap2/omap_hwmod.c
> +++ b/arch/arm/mach-omap2/omap_hwmod.c
> @@ -4153,5 +4153,10 @@ const char *omap_hwmod_get_main_clk(struct
> omap_hwmod *oh)
>       if (!oh)
>           return NULL;
>
> +    if (!of_have_populated_dt()) {
> +        WARN(1, "%s hwmod clk node read with OF?:FIXME!\n",
> +             oh->name);
> +    }
> +
>       return oh->main_clk;
>   }




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