[PATCH/RFC 0/4] of: Register clocks for Runtime PM with PM core

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

Hi Laurent,

On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 11:29 PM, Laurent Pinchart
<laurent.pinchart at ideasonboard.com> wrote:
> On Thursday 24 April 2014 12:13:19 Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>> On SoCs like ARM/SH-mobile, gate clocks are available for modules, allowing
>> Runtime PM for a device controlled by a gate clock.
>>
>> On legacy shmobile kernels, this is handled by the PM runtime code in
>> drivers/sh/pm_runtime.c, which installs a clock notifier for the platform
>> bus, registering the "NULL" clock of each platform device with the PM core.
>> This approach is also used on davinci, keystone, and omap1.
>
> This requires the device to have the MSTP clock defined as the first clock in
> its DT node. I'm not against that, but the requirement should be clearly
> documented, and we need to check existing DT bindings to make sure they comply
> with that.

Being the first clock is only required for the "NULL" clock. And that
is only done
for legacy shmobile kernels, not for multi-platform.

In this patch series, the clock would be chosen based on the presence of the
CLK_RUNTIME_PM flag, to be set by the clock driver. I.e. DT is not involved
directly (for a change... why does everybody think the whole world revolves
 around DT these days ? :-)

> I'd like to also take this as an opportunity to discuss how we should name
> clocks in DT bindings for Renesas devices. Most devices have a single MSTP
> clock, in which case we don't specify a name. Other devices need several
> clocks. Names for the non-MSTP clocks will obviously be device-dependent, but
> how should the MSTP clock be called in that time ? Should it have an empty
> name (a "" string in DT) ? Should it have a standard name ? Maybe "fck" for
> "functional clock" ?

Empty names should not be used if there can be multiple clocks, right?

Grepping in arch/*/boot/dts/, "fck" seems to be popular (only) for TI SoCs.

Stadardizing across SoCs and architectures would be nice, though.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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