Re: [PATCH v5 02/10] dt-bindings: phy: qcom,qmp-usb: Add Glymur USB UNI PHY compatible

[Wesley Cheng <wesley.cheng@oss.qualcomm.com>]

On 10/16/2025 9:41 PM, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> On 17/10/2025 02:15, Wesley Cheng wrote:
>>>> Technically its all handling the same clock branch (CXO), we have the
>>>> TCSR clkref register that allows us to gate the CXO to the USB PHY, as
>>>
>>>
>>> Ah, exactly. Then clkref is not a clock. You need rather proper clock
>>> hierarchy.
>>>
>>>> CXO is shared across several HW blocks, so it allows us to properly
>>>> powerdown the PHY even though other clients are voting for CXO on.  Then
>>>> we obviously have to remove our vote to the overall CXO, so that it can
>>>> potentially be shutdown.
>>>>
>>>> Maybe we can rename it to "clkref" for the CXO handle and
>>>> "clkref_switch" for the TCSRCC handle?
>>>
>>> Naming is better, but it is still not correct. This is not independent
>>> clock signal. It is the same clock.
>>>
>>
>> Hmmm... I guess that's why I kept the same clkref tag, to denote that
>> its the same clock, but one is a switch/gate for it.  Would you happen
>> to have any suggestions you might have that makes it clearer for
>> everyone to understand?
> To me it looks like:
> 
> |-----|            |-----------|           |------------------|
> |clock|------------|TCSRCC gate|-----------|clkref to this dev|
> |-----|            |-----------|           |------------------|
> 
> So you need proper clock controller for TCSR (TCSR Clock Controller, in
> short TCSRCC, what a surprise!) which will take input, add gate and
> produce clock for this device.
> 
> Nothing non-standard, all Qualcomm SoCs have it, every other platform
> has it in some way.
> 

Hi Krzystof,

Yes, the design is exactly how you outlined it above.  How about clkref 
for the clock and tcsrcc_switch for the clkref switch?  That removes any 
notation that the gate/switch is an actual clock...

Thanks
Wesley Cheng