Re: [PATCH RFT v2 01/14] dt-bindings: clock: qcom,rpmcc: Add a way to enable unused clock cleanup

Stephen Boyd
2023-03-17T18:21:03Z

Quoting Konrad Dybcio (2023-03-16 17:31:34)
>
> On 16.03.2023 23:58, Rob Herring wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 08, 2023 at 10:35:17PM +0100, Konrad Dybcio wrote:
> >>
> >> + qcom,clk-disable-unused:
> >> + type: boolean
> >> + description:
> >> + Indicates whether unused RPM clocks can be shut down with the common
> >> + unused clock cleanup. Requires a functional interconnect driver.
> >
> > I don't think this should be QCom specific. Come up with something
> > common (which will probably have some debate).
> Generally the opposite (ignoring unused clocks during the cleanup) is
> the thing you need to opt into.
>
> I can however see how (especially with the focus on not breaking things
> for older DTs) somebody else may also decide to only allow them to be
> cleaned up conditionally (by marking the clocks that were enabled earlier
> as enabled in Linux OR not addding clk.flags |= CLK_IGNORE_UNUSED) as we
> do here.
>
> Stephen, Rob, would `clk-disable-unused` be a fitting generic property
> name for that? Should we also think about `clk-ignore-unused` as a
> clock-controller-specific alternative to the CCF-wide clk_ignore_unused
> cmdline?
>

There are multiple threads on the list about disabling unused clks.
Moving the decision to disable unused clks to a DT property is yet
another approach. I'd rather not do that, because it really isn't
describing the hardware configuration. If anything, I'd expect the
property to be describing which clks are enabled by the firmware and
then leave the decision to disable them because they're unused up to the
software.