Re: [PATCH v2] clk: Do not complain about correctly set read-only muxes when assigning clock parents from device tree

[Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>]

On 01/09/2015 06:50 AM, Philipp Zabel wrote:
> Hi Stephen,
>
> Am Donnerstag, den 08.01.2015, 13:32 -0800 schrieb Stephen Boyd:
> [...]
>> Why not do this in the core? As far as I can tell other drivers could
>> run into the same problem, no? Does this work?
>>
>> -----8<-------
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/clk/clk.c b/drivers/clk/clk.c
>> index f4963b7d4e17..3278645f4729 100644
>> --- a/drivers/clk/clk.c
>> +++ b/drivers/clk/clk.c
>> @@ -1677,16 +1677,18 @@ int clk_set_parent(struct clk *clk, struct clk *parent)
>>  	if (!clk)
>>  		return 0;
>>  
>> -	/* verify ops for for multi-parent clks */
>> -	if ((clk->num_parents > 1) && (!clk->ops->set_parent))
>> -		return -ENOSYS;
>> -
>>  	/* prevent racing with updates to the clock topology */
>>  	clk_prepare_lock();
>>  
>>  	if (clk->parent == parent)
>>  		goto out;
>>  
>> +	/* verify ops for for multi-parent clks */
>> +	if ((clk->num_parents > 1) && (!clk->ops->set_parent)) {
>> +		ret = -ENOSYS;
>> +		goto out;
>> +	}
>> +
>>  	/* check that we are allowed to re-parent if the clock is in use */
>>  	if ((clk->flags & CLK_SET_PARENT_GATE) && clk->prepare_count) {
>>  		ret = -EBUSY;
> "[PATCH] clk: make set_parent succeed for any clock if the parent to be
> set is the same as the current parent" ?
>
> It works, but it also changes the API, as it makes
>    clk_set_parent(some_non_mux, its_current_parent)
> succeed instead of return -ENOSYS.

I would think a non_mux clk would have clk->num_parents == 1, so I don't
see how it would return -ENOSYS here. What you mention should succeed
today. Otherwise we have a bug.

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