Re: [PATCH] serial/efm32: add new driver

["Uwe Kleine-König" <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>]

Hello,

On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 09:44:28PM +0100, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 10:35:22AM +0000, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > On Thursday 22 December 2011, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> > 
> > > @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
> > > +* Energymicro efm32 UART
> > > +
> > > +Required properties:
> > > +- compatible : Should be "efm32,usart"
> > > +- reg : Address and length of the register set
> > > +- interrupts : Should contain uart interrupt
> > > +
> > > +Example:
> > > +
> > > +uart@0x4000c400 {
> > > +	compatible = "efm32,usart";
> > > +	reg = <0x4000c400 0x400>;
> > > +	interrupts = <15>;
> > > +};
> > 
> > Do you know if the usart was actually designed by energymicro or licensed
> > from another party? If it is a licensed part, it would be better to
> > list the "compatible" value under the company name that made it.
> I don't know so I passed the question to them.
I got an answer here over the holidays and Energy Micro designed the
part.
 
> > I would suggest that you also support the "clock-frequency" and/or
> > "current-speed" properties that are defined for serial ports, see the
> > of_serial driver.
> I will have a look to find out what they mean and update the patch
> accordingly.
I took that look and I don't understand what they are good for in my
case.
clock-frequency is used to initialize port->uartclk (and helps setting
up port->custom_divisor if current-speed is given). The driver I posted
uses the clk API to determine the clock frequency. So shouldn't the frequency
better be specified in the clk part of the dt? (I don't know yet how a
dt binding for clks should/can look like, so this is a bit speculative,
but I'd expect to have nothing more clk related in a device
specification but a reference to a clk definition.)

Independant of my driver I wonder if defining current-speed should also
result in

	port->flags |= UPF_SPD_CUST;

(in of_platform_serial_setup()).

Having said that and taking into account that my driver doesn't use
port->custom_divisor, do you keep suggesting that I should use
"clock-frequency" and/or "current-speed"?

Best regards
Uwe

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