From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: mark.rutland@arm.com (Mark Rutland)
Date: Tue, 27 May 2014 16:43:03 +0100
Subject: PXA 2xx devictree port and clock infrastructure
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On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 04:17:48PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Tuesday 27 May 2014, Robert Jarzmik wrote:
> > I'm playing with devicetree to port the mioa701 machine code to devicetree (or
> > rather to eliminate the mioa701 machine code).
> > 
> > While porting the pxa2xx device drivers, I came to a question about the clock
> > infrastructure, and I'd need a bit of guidance.
> > 
> > Many drivers, in their probe code are doing something like :
> >         1) regs = platform_get_resource(pdev, IORESOURCE_MEM, 0);
> >         2) irq = platform_get_irq(pdev, 0);
> >         3) clk = clk_get(&pdev->dev, NULL);
> > 
> > Points 1 and 2 are straightforward with DT. Point 3 is not so obvious to me.
> > 
> > As there is no platform data anymore, the clock infrastructure wants to match
> > the OF device (in my case udc at 40600000) with the registered
> > clocks. Unfortunately, the registered clock is named "pxa27x-udc", which works
> > well in "platform data" devices, but not in devicetree populated devices.
> > 
> > Therefore, I'd like to know what to do, and an example in another platform would
> > be great. Should I create a clkdev driver in drivers/clk, or is there another
> > ... faster way ? And Daniel, you probably solved it already for
> > arch/arm/mach-pxa/pxa-dt.c, didn't you ?
> 
> There are generally three ways of doing this:
> 
> a) use an auxdata table to reassign the device names to what they
>    used to be
> b) change the clkdev lookup to also include the new names (e.g. "40600000.udc")
> c) write a DT-aware clock driver and list all clocks in DT

Out of these, c would be my preferred solution. It would match the
solutions for problems 1 and 2, and it's almost inevitable that later
we'll want DT clocks anyway...

Cheers,
Mark.