[PATCH v5 3/3] ARM: dts: igep00x0: add wl18xx bindings

Tony Lindgren tony at atomide.com
Wed Mar 11 08:11:38 PDT 2015


* Eliad Peller <eliad at wizery.com> [150311 06:39]:
> On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 3:21 PM, Javier Martinez Canillas
> <javier at dowhile0.org> wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 2:17 PM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de> wrote:
> >> On Wednesday 11 March 2015 14:07:11 Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Right now it seems that all boards in mainline with a WiLink6 part are
> >>> using internal clocks. So as a first step I think that adding an
> >>> optional refclock-frequency and tcxoclock-frequency properties should
> >>> be enough.
> >>>
> >>> It would be good if the driver supports getting the refclock and
> >>> tcxoclock from an external provider in case a board gets these from
> >>> external clocks but that can be done as a followup if there are boards
> >>> in the future using that design.
> >>>
> >>> But please bear in mind that I'm not familiar with the clock handling
> >>> in WiLink6 since the WiLink8 part used in the IGEP boards does not
> >>> need these clocks and I only looked at Luciano's previous patches and
> >>> the WiLink today driver today. So it would be good if Eliad can double
> >>> check my assumptions to see if those are correct.
> >>
> sounds right. that's what i know as well.
> 
> >> Sounds good. I'd also be fine with not implementing the case for
> >> external clocks in the code until we need (and can test) it, but
> >> I think it should be specified in the binding from the start.
> >>
> > Agreed.
> >
> great. so i'll implement the internal clocks case only.

OK great sounds good to me also.

Regards,

Tony



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