[PATCH v3 5/8] rtc: ac100: Add clk output support

Chen-Yu Tsai wens at csie.org
Mon Jun 27 19:27:42 PDT 2016


On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 3:23 AM, Maxime Ripard
<maxime.ripard at free-electrons.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 06:11:55PM +0800, Chen-Yu Tsai wrote:
>> On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 6:02 PM, Maxime Ripard
>> <maxime.ripard at free-electrons.com> wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 10:52:15AM +0800, Chen-Yu Tsai wrote:
>> >> +     /*
>> >> +      * The ADDA 4 MHz clock is from the codec side of the AC100,
>> >> +      * which is likely a different power domain. However, boards
>> >> +      * always have both sides powered on, so it is impossible to
>> >> +      * test this.
>> >> +      */
>> >
>> > If that ADDA clock is exposed by the codec, why are you putting it in
>> > the RTC?
>>
>> The thing is it's not entirely clear that it's from the codec side.
>> I'm just inferring this from the name. (I'll make the comment clearer.)
>> The codec parts of the datasheet don't mention this clock at all.
>>
>> Allwinner's SDK puts all the clocks under the RTC module. And the
>> are always on, so I can't really turn off the codec and see what
>> happens. That and I don't have an oscilloscope or logic analyzer.
>
> Why not just create a separate clock driver then?

That would mean a separate device node as well. I'd like to keep
the bindings close to how the hardware is organized.

I can move the ADDA clock over to the codec side.

ChenYu



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