Re: [PATCH v6 00/41] ARM: davinci: convert to common clock framework​

David Lechner david at lechnology.com
Tue Jan 23 12:23:10 PST 2018


On 01/23/2018 02:05 PM, David Lechner wrote:
> On 01/23/2018 02:01 PM, David Lechner wrote:
>> On 01/23/2018 01:53 PM, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
>>>
>>> In the mdio case - the problem is that devm_clk_get() doesn't fail,
>>> but somehow the clock doesn't end up in the list of the device's
>>> clocks - which is why it's not enabled by pm_runtime_get_sync().
>>>
>>
>>
>> Right. This is because devm_clk_get() now finds the clock via device
>> tree instead of a clkdev lookup entry. However, I think that the PM
>> notifier registered in arch/arm/mach-davinci/pm_domain.c only uses
>> the clkdev lookup to match the con_id and does not use device tree.
>> The same thing is happing in mdio, emac and lcdc.
>>
> 
> Minor correction: It looks like emac doesn't do this because it doesn't
> have a con_id of "fck". But, the same clock is shared by emac and mdio, so
> since mdio enables the clock, emac doesn't notice or care that it did
> not enable the clock itself.

How about using pm_clk_add_clk() in these drivers to explicitly use the
clocks for power management instead of relying on pm_clk_add_notifier()
to do this implicitly?



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