Re: [PATCH v3 10/12] dt-bindings: mediatek: mt8188: add audio afe document

["Trevor Wu (吳文良)" <Trevor.Wu@mediatek.com>]

On Wed, 2022-12-14 at 13:02 +0100, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> On 13/12/2022 16:06, Trevor Wu (吳文良) wrote:
> > On Mon, 2022-12-12 at 09:40 +0100, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> > > On 12/12/2022 03:43, Trevor Wu (吳文良) wrote:
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > > > +    uniqueItems: true
> > > > > > > > +    items:
> > > > > > > > +      minimum: 0
> > > > > > > > +      maximum: 15
> > > > > > > > +
> > > > > > > > +  "^mediatek,etdm-in[1-2]-mclk-always-on-rate-hz$":
> > > > > > > > +    description: Specify etdm in mclk output rate for
> > > > > > > > always
> > > > > > > > on
> > > > > > > > case.
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > How is it different than assigned-clock-rates?
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > This includes clock enabling at init stage.
> > > > > 
> > > > > assigned-clock-rates are also at init stage. I asked what is
> > > > > different.
> > > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > If the property is used, there are three parts included in dai
> > > > driver
> > > > probe function.
> > > > 
> > > > 1. set clock parent (which APLL)
> > > > 2. set clock rate (MCLK rate)
> > > > 3. enable clock (MCLK On)
> > > > 
> > > > The first two parts can be done by existing dts clock
> > > > properties,
> > > > but
> > > > the last one can't.
> > > > When MCLK should be enabled at boot time and kept on, this
> > > > property
> > > > is used. That's why I say the property is designed for always-
> > > > on
> > > > case.
> > > 
> > > Heh, so the "always on case" means this property enables clock?
> > > How
> > > is
> > > this even DT property? That's not how clocks should be kept
> > > enabled.
> > > You
> > > need proper clock provider and consumer.
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> > Hi Krzysztof,
> > 
> > Sorry, I don't know it is not appropriate to notify driver that the
> > clock should be ketp enabled after boot.
> > 
> > The original idea is that enabling this clock in the machine
> > driver,
> > but a property to inform machine driver is also required when the
> > machine driver is shared by different codec combination. And it's
> > easier to handle set_rate and set_parent in etdm dai driver, so I
> > put
> > the property here.
> > 
> > Do you mean if the clock consumer(audio codec or external DSP)
> > requries
> > the clock, the consumer should enable the clock by itself?
> 
> Yes, your clocks should have consumers and they keep the clock
> enabled
> when needed. Certain clocks can be marked as IGNORE or CRITICAL to
> keep
> enabled without consumers (or even when consumers disable), but
> that's
> still not a DT property.
> 
> 
Hi Krzysztof,

Got it. If the implementation is not suggested, I will drop the
property in V4 and ask consumer to use existing clock property with
clock control API instead when we have such case.

Thanks,
Trevor



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