[PATCH 6/9] ARM: tegra: Export tegra_powergate_power_on
Peter De Schrijver
pdeschrijver at nvidia.com
Thu Jun 19 01:02:35 PDT 2014
On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 05:37:54PM +0200, Stephen Warren wrote:
> On 06/18/2014 06:18 AM, Peter De Schrijver wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 11:51:20PM +0200, Thierry Reding wrote:
> >> * PGP Signed by an unknown key
> >>
> >> On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 05:01:46PM +0300, Peter De Schrijver wrote:
> >>> On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 02:13:15PM +0200, Thierry Reding wrote:
> >>>>> Old Signed by an unknown key
> >>>>
> >>>> On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 04:01:02PM -0600, Stephen Warren wrote:
> >>>>> On 06/04/2014 05:32 AM, Mikko Perttunen wrote:
> >>>>>> This symbol needs to be exported to power on rails without using
> >>>>>> tegra_powergate_sequence_power_up. tegra_powergate_sequence_power_up
> >>>>>> cannot be used in situations where the driver wants to handle clocking
> >>>>>> by itself.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Thierry, are you OK with this change?
> >>>>
> >>>> I would've preferred tegra_powergate_sequence_power_up() to be used
> >>>
> >>> I don't think the current tegra_powergate_sequence_power_up() API is very well
> >>> defined though. I don't think the clocks and resets required by the sequence
> >>> should be provided by the driver. For one, there can be several clocks and
> >>> resets that need to be controlled for a single domain.
> >>
> >> Do you have any suggestions for what the API should look like? Even if
> >> we plan to move to some different API, I think there's some advantage in
> >> using it consistently if for no other reason than to make it easier to
> >> replace occurrences later on.
> >>
> >
> > I think the API should only have the domain ID as input so:
> >
> > int tegra_powerdomain_on(int id)
> >
> > /*
> > * Prerequisites: domain is off
> > * Result: domain is on, clocks of the modules in the domain are off, modules are in reset
> > */
> >
> > int tegra_powerdomain_off(int id)
> >
> > /*
> > * Prerequisites: all clocks of the modules in the domain are off
> > * result: domain is off
> > */
>
> That doesn't make sense; the PMC doesn't have access to the clock and
> reset IDs - that's why the API requires them to be passed in.
>
We should make driver look them up by name then. It doesn't make sense to
move this knowledge to the drivers as there can be several modules in 1
powerdomain. So every driver would then need to have access to all clock
and reset IDs of the modules of the domain?
Cheers,
Peter.
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