Re: [PATCH 2/3] MIPS: dts: qca: ar9132: drop unused extosc mentions

[Alban <albeu@free.fr>]

On Thu, 21 Jan 2016 12:59:04 +0300
Antony Pavlov <antonynpavlov@gmail.com> wrote:

> At the moment ar913x_clocks_init() does not use extosc node at all,
> the reference clock rate is hardcoded inside arch/mips/ath79/clock.c
> 
>     #define AR913X_BASE_FREQ        5000000
> 
>     ...
> 
>     static void __init ar913x_clocks_init(void)
>     {
>             ref_rate = AR913X_BASE_FREQ;
> 
>     ...
> 
>             ath79_add_sys_clkdev("ref", ref_rate);
> 
> Also please see the commits 'MIPS: ath79: Fix the ar913x reference clock rate'
> and 'MIPS: ath79: Fix the ar724x clock calculation' in Alban Bedel's
> github ath79 branch https://github.com/AlbanBedel/linux/tree/ath79

Yes, the reference clock definition is not yet used by the code, but
the binding define it as required. This is because a proper
implementation would need the reference clock rate.

It would be better to fix the code to get rid of the hard coded rates
when using DT. I haven't done so yet because I wanted to first get DT
support without too many changes, but that's on the TODO list along with
moving to drivers/clk.

Alban