Re: (subset) [PATCH v12 00/19] Support spread spectrum clocking for i.MX8M PLLs

Krzysztof Kozlowski
2025-05-27T18:42:13Z

On 23/05/2025 17:19, Dario Binacchi wrote:
> Hello Abel,
>
> On Mon, May 5, 2025 at 9:52 AM Abel Vesa <abel.vesa@linaro.org> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Thu, 24 Apr 2025 08:21:30 +0200, Dario Binacchi wrote:
>>> This version keeps the version v9 patches that can be merged and
>>> removes the patches that will need to be modified in case Peng's
>>> PR https://github.com/devicetree-org/dt-schema/pull/154 is accepted.
>>> The idea is to speed up the merging of the patches in the series
>>> that have already been reviewed and are not dependent on the
>>> introduction of the assigned-clocks-sscs property, and postpone
>>> the patches for spread spectrum to a future series once it becomes
>>> clear what needs to be done.
>>>
>>> [...]
>>
>> Applied, thanks!
>
> I was surprised to see that the series has been removed from linux-next.

Did you miss entire email thread explaining why? I think you never
answered to several emails in this thread... and we - including myself -
sent them a lot.

>
> It’s been 8 months since the first version dated September 28, 2024.
> The most critical phase was version 3 -
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/20241106090549.3684963-1-dario.binacchi@amarulasolutions.com/
> -
> where two key issues emerged:
>
> 1 The CCM design is flawed because "in the current design, CCM is
> taken as the producer of CLK_IMX8M_VIDEO_PLL, not the consumer."
>
> 2 A driver for anatop needs to be implemented because "using clocks
> to replace fsl,ssc-clocks is possible under CCM mode, but you need
> to develop the fsl,imx8mm-anatop clock driver."
>
> These development guidelines, agreed upon with Krzysztof and Peng,
> enabled a coherent implementation of both the DT bindings and the
> code. The following versions, from v4 to v8, were necessary to
> review and refine those implementations, bringing us to January 2025.
>
> At that point, Peng opened a separate pull request -
> https://github.com/devicetree-org/dt-schema/pull/154 -
> for the definition of general-purpose DT bindings for spread spectrum
> handling, which ended up invalidating mine.
>
> While waiting for his pull request to be accepted, I submitted version 9,
> trying to at least get the patches for the anatop driver merged,
> eventually reaching version 12.
>
> This final version was merged, but then a few days ago it was dropped.

And explained why. There were bug reports which you completely ignored.

>
> As it stands now:
>
> - We still don’t have proper spread spectrum handling
> - Peng’s pull request has been stalled since February 20
> - We don’t have a driver for anatop
> - The CCM design remains flawed
> - Not even the first 4 patches of the series were merged — these were
> simply a replication for i.MX8MM and i.MX8MP of patch
> bedcf9d1dcf88 ("clk: imx: rename video\_pll1 to video\_pll"), which
> was already merged some time ago.
>
> Could you please let me know if you're still interested in this series?
> If so, could you suggest how to resolve the issues that led you to drop it?

You got several replies what is wrong. Can you respond to these instead
of coming now surprised?

Best regards,
Krzysztof