From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: shengjiu.wang@freescale.com (Shengjiu Wang) Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2015 17:15:30 +0800 Subject: [PATCH V2 1/2] clk: imx6: Add SPDIF_GCLK clock in clock tree In-Reply-To: <20150924115737.GM3529@tiger> References: <113f1cecf1d83c6b96fd23ab9d7a73d1923e0d21.1442310569.git.shengjiu.wang@freescale.com> <20150923153340.GK3529@tiger> <20150924054321.GA32196@shlinux2> <20150924115737.GM3529@tiger> Message-ID: <20151009091528.GA25804@shlinux2> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 04:57:37AM -0700, Shawn Guo wrote: > On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 01:43:24PM +0800, Shengjiu Wang wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 08:33:41AM -0700, Shawn Guo wrote: > > > On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 06:01:01PM +0800, Shengjiu Wang wrote: > > > > As spdif driver will register SPDIF clock to regmap, regmap will do > > > > clk_prepare in init function, so SPDIF clock is prepared in probe, then its > > > > root clock (pll clock) is prepared also, which cause the arm can't enter > > > > low power mode. > > > > > > Can you help me understand why ARM cannot enter low power mode when pll > > > clock is prepared? > > > > > > Shawn > > Hi Shawn > > > > In i.mx clock framework, when pll clk is prepared, it will be powerup. when > > enterring low power idle mode, the powerdown bit is checked, when pll is not > > powerdown state, chip will not enter low power idle mode. > > So this is not a SPDIF specific problem, and any device driver preparing > its clock that is a child of pll clock will run into this problem, > right? If so, we should purchase a more generic solution than such > device specific one. > > Shawn Hi shawn SPDIF_GCLK is also spdif's clock, it use a same enable bit with SPDIF_ROOT_CLK, We didn't separate them in clock tree before. I can't find a generic solution. But anyway if there is a solution or not, I think we'd better to separate them. best regards wang shengjiu