[PATCH 2/2] clk: initial clock driver for TWL6030

Mike Turquette mturquette at linaro.org
Thu Jul 31 12:20:53 PDT 2014


Quoting Stefan Assmann (2014-07-31 07:05:43)
> On 31.07.2014 14:58, Peter Ujfalusi wrote:
> > On 07/31/2014 03:54 PM, Stefan Assmann wrote:
> >>> Why would you do this? The point of a clock provider is that you can
> >>> enable/disable the clock on demand. Here you enable the clock and leave it
> >>> enabled for the rest of the time...
> >>>
> >>> clk-dra7-atl deals with similar issue
> >>
> >> The idea is to enable the clock by default to get the wifi working.
> >> Sorry if I got it wrong.
> > 
> > You should have a clock driver for the 32K clock. The wifi driver should
> > request and manage it's clocks via the clock API.
> > 
> 
> If the clock does not get enabled the wifi driver wl12xx doesn't even
> get probed. Which is my initial problem. Maybe I need to figure that out
> first.

Sounds like the wifi driver's probe is missing something like:

"""
#include <linux/clk.h>

int ret;

struct clk *clk32k = clk_get(...);

if (IS_ERR(clk32k))
        explode();

ret = clk_prepare_enable(clk32k);

if (ret)
        explode();
"""

Regards,
Mike

> 
>   Stefan



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