Re: [PATCH v4 03/10] Documentation: devicetree: Update Samsung FIMC DT binding

[Sylwester Nawrocki <sylvester.nawrocki@gmail.com>]

On 02/22/2014 11:26 PM, Tomasz Figa wrote:
> [Ccing Mike]
>
> On 22.02.2014 23:02, Sylwester Nawrocki wrote:
>> On 02/21/2014 04:50 PM, Mark Rutland wrote:
>>> On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 07:40:30PM +0000, Sylwester Nawrocki wrote:
>>>> +- #clock-cells: from the common clock bindings
>>>> (../clock/clock-bindings.txt),
>>>> + must be 1. A clock provider is associated with the 'camera' node
>>>> and it should
>>>> + be referenced by external sensors that use clocks provided by the
>>>> SoC on
>>>> + CAM_*_CLKOUT pins. The clock specifier cell stores an index of a
>>>> clock.
>>>> + The indices are 0, 1 for CAM_A_CLKOUT, CAM_B_CLKOUT clocks
>>>> respectively.
>>>> +
>>>> +- clock-output-names: from the common clock bindings, should contain
>>>> names of
>>>> + clocks registered by the camera subsystem corresponding to
>>>> CAM_A_CLKOUT,
>>>> + CAM_B_CLKOUT output clocks, in this order. Parent clock of these
>>>> clocks are
>>>> + specified be first two entries of the clock-names property.
>>>
>>> Do you need this?
>>
>> All right, that might have been a bad idea, it mixes names of clocks
>> registered
>> by the main clock controller with names of clock input lines at the
>> device.
>> It's a mistake I have been usually sensitive to and now made it
>> myself. :/
>>
>> My intention was to maintain the clock tree, since the camera block
>> doesn't
>> generate the clock itself, it merely passes through the clocks from the
>> SoC main
>> clock controller (CMU). So clk parents need to be properly set and since
>> there is no clock-output-names property at the CMU DT node,
>> of_clk_get_parent_name() cannot be used.
>>
>> So presumably the DT binding would be only specifying that the sclk_cam0,
>> sclk_cam1 clock input entries are associated with output clocks named as
>> in clock-output-names property.
>>
>> And the driver could either:
>> 1) hard code those (well defined) CMU clock (clk parent) names,
>
> I don't think this would be a good idea, as those CMU clock names may
> vary between SoCs.

For the record, I'm not in favour of this approach, even though these clock
names happen to be same for all relevant SoCs.

>> 2) clk_get() its input clock, retrieve name with __clk_get_name() and
>> pass
>> it as parent name to clk_register() - it sounds a bit hacky though.
>
> This looks fine, at least until proper interface is added to CCF. Exynos
> audio subsystem clock driver does exactly the same.

Hmm, I looked at this driver and somehow missed that.

> However, the right thing would be to make it possible to use pointers to
> struct clk instead of strings to list parent(s). This could be done by
> adding .parents field (struct clk **) to clk_init_data struct and make
> clk_register() use it if available.

We would just need to ensure the locking is done properly.

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Regards,
Sylwester