[PATCH v6 4/7] clk: mediatek: Add MT2701 clock support
Michael Turquette
mturquette at baylibre.com
Wed Feb 24 13:25:33 PST 2016
Hi James,
Quoting James Liao (2016-02-15 01:19:42)
> Hi Mike,
>
> On Wed, 2016-02-10 at 12:08 -0800, Michael Turquette wrote:
> > Quoting James Liao (2016-02-05 01:37:27)
> > > +CLK_OF_DECLARE(mtk_topckgen, "mediatek,mt2701-topckgen", mtk_topckgen_init);
> > > +CLK_OF_DECLARE(mtk_infrasys, "mediatek,mt2701-infracfg", mtk_infrasys_init);
> > > +CLK_OF_DECLARE(mtk_pericfg, "mediatek,mt2701-pericfg", mtk_pericfg_init);
> > > +CLK_OF_DECLARE(mtk_mmsys, "mediatek,mt2701-mmsys", mtk_mmsys_init);
> > > +CLK_OF_DECLARE(mtk_imgsys, "mediatek,mt2701-imgsys", mtk_imgsys_init);
> > > +CLK_OF_DECLARE(mtk_vdecsys, "mediatek,mt2701-vdecsys", mtk_vdecsys_init);
> > > +CLK_OF_DECLARE(mtk_hifsys, "mediatek,mt2701-hifsys", mtk_hifsys_init);
> > > +CLK_OF_DECLARE(mtk_ethsys, "mediatek,mt2701-ethsys", mtk_ethsys_init);
> > > +CLK_OF_DECLARE(mtk_bdpsys, "mediatek,mt2701-bdpsys", mtk_bdpsys_init);
> > > +CLK_OF_DECLARE(mtk_apmixedsys, "mediatek,mt2701-apmixedsys",
> >
> > :-/
> >
> > This is way too much CLK_OF_DECLARE and not enough Linux Driver Model.
> >
> > I understand that some platforms really must initialize some clocks very
> > early, but can we please separate those into one table and call
> > CLK_OF_DECLARE on only that set, and then register the rest through a
> > platform_driver later on?
>
> I know CLK_OF_DECLARE is much earlier than platform_driver, so it can
> ensure all drivers lookup their clocks successfully during
> platform_driver probe. Is there anything different to init these clock
> providers in CLK_OF_DECLARE and platform_driver?
This a common pattern we're seeing right now. Joachim did a nice job of
supporting early clocks with CLK_OF_DECLARE, and also using a proper
driver in his lpc18xx implementation:
http://marc.info/?l=devicetree&m=145618160610001
Regards,
Mike
>
>
> Best regards,
>
> James
>
>
>
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