[PATCH] Documentation: dt: bindings: TI WiLink modules

Luciano Coelho coelho at ti.com
Sat Jul 20 03:48:08 EDT 2013


On Thu, 2013-07-18 at 01:58 +0200, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> Hi Luciano,

Hi Laurent,

> On Monday 01 July 2013 15:39:30 Luciano Coelho wrote:
> > The only thing I can come up with is to make a small clock driver (maybe
> > even inside the WiLink module itself) that registers a new type of
> > clock, "ti,wilink-clock" or something.  But this would really be
> > overkill, wouldn't it?
> > 
> > Any other ideas?
> 
> One possibility would be to just call clk_get_rate() on the clock from the 
> WiLink driver, which would return the fixed frequency specified in DT, and 
> configure the WiLink hardware accordingly. This might be a bit hackish though.

The problem is not get the rate itself, the problem is knowing whether
the clock is XTAL or not.  The WiLink chip uses the clock in a slightly
different way if it is XTAL, due to some stabilization time constraints.

--
Luca.




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