Re: [PATCH v6 4/4] clk: qcom: add clock controller driver for qca8386/qca8084

Stephen Boyd
2023-09-14T16:30:20Z

Quoting Jie Luo (2023-09-12 20:27:25)
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> On 9/13/2023 1:18 AM, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> > Quoting Jie Luo (2023-09-12 05:07:02)
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> >> and freq_tbl are necessary to this clock.
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> > I still don't see why the freq_tbl is necessary.
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> Hi Stephen,
> For clk_rcg2_ops, freq_tbl is used to find the closest rate to decided
> the parent clock, the configuration of clock source and clock divider
> are saved in the freq_tbl to configure the RCG hardware register, the
> mapping of parent clock and hardware register value is decided by the
> freq_tbl for the RCG clock.

The divider is always 1. The frequency is the frequency of the parent.
The two pieces of information are already known without the frequency
table. Why is it needed?