[Query]set clk rate must operate its coordinated clock

[mturquette@baylibre.com (Michael Turquette)]

Jisheng,

Quoting Jisheng Zhang (2016-03-08 23:24:20)
> Dear Stephen, Michael, Sebastian and all, 
> 
> I have the following clk case which I dunno the elegant solution:
> 
> 
> cpuclk have two parents: cpupll and refclk. When set the cpuclk freq, we
> have to set its parent's freq, I.E cpupll freq. But before changing the
> cpupll's freq, we should set its refclk as its parent firstly.
> 
> AFAIK, this is a common case, I have seen such requirement in rockchip, samsung
> clk driver. They solve this by notifier, but as pointed out by Michael
> in http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2015-June/351565.html
> 
> "This is also a hack and it points towards some missing infrastructure in the
> clock framework."
> 
> I also don't like the notifier solution, I believe the elegant solution could
> be using the coordinated clock infrastructure. So what's the status of
> this infrastructure? I can test, and I can even add some code to make it be
> ready to be merged if you guide me ;)

Thanks for the email. I hope to finish that feature before ELC. I have
Cc'd Pi-Cheng Chen from Mediatek who is also interested in coordinated
clock rates.

Regards,
Mike

> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Jisheng