[PATCH v2 0/1] clk: nuvoton: ma35d1-divider: use direct formula instead of divider table

Jerome Brunet jbrunet at baylibre.com
Fri Oct 9 09:35:25 PDT 2026


> The MA35D1 ADC clock divider register implements a simple closed-form
> relation, rate = parent_rate / (2 * (N + 1)), but the driver models it
> by building a clk_div_table with one entry per possible divider value
> (up to 2^width entries) and feeding it through the generic
> divider_recalc_rate()/divider_determine_rate()/divider_get_val() helpers.
> Replace the table with direct arithmetic in recalc_rate()/determine_rate()/
> set_rate(), and drop the unused mask_bit mechanism, whose only call site
> passed a bitmask instead of a bit index, causing an out-of-range BIT()
> shift.
> 
> Changes in v2 (addressing the Sashiko AI review of v1):
> - Fix a possible division by zero: 2 * rate in determine_rate() and
>   set_rate() could overflow for very large requested rates, making the
>   divisor zero. Rates above parent_rate / 2 now short-circuit to a
>   divider of 1 before the multiplication.
> - Fix the mismatch between determine_rate() and set_rate(): both used
>   a ceiling to pick the divider, yet determine_rate() reported a
>   closest-rounded rate, so set_rate() could program a different divider
>   than the one promised. Both now use closest rounding, as the original
>   CLK_DIVIDER_ROUND_CLOSEST code did, via a single shared helper
>   (ma35d1_clkdiv_get_val()) that also clamps the divider to its valid
>   range.
> - Not changed: min_rate/max_rate are not checked in the driver, since
>   the clk core already applies them and the previous
>   divider_determine_rate() based code did not either.
>

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