[PATCH v8 4/9] phy: fsl: Add Lynx 10G SerDes driver

Stephen Boyd sboyd at kernel.org
Tue Dec 6 18:17:40 PST 2022


Quoting Sean Anderson (2022-11-01 16:27:21)
> On 11/1/22 16:10, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> >> 
> >> Oh, I remember why I did this. I need the reference clock for clk_hw_round_rate,
> >> which is AFAICT the only correct way to implement round_rate.
> >> 
> > 
> > Is the reference clk the parent of the clk implementing
> > clk_ops::round_rate()?
> 
> Yes. We may be able to produce a given output with multiple reference
> rates. However, the clock API provides no mechanism to say "Don't ask
> for the parent clock to be rate X, you just tried it and the parent
> clock can't support it." So instead, we loop over the possible reference
> rates and pick the first one which the parent says it can round to.
> 

Sorry, I'm lost. Why can't you loop over possible reference rates in
determine_rate/round_rate clk op here?



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