Re: [PATCH v2 4/4] media: i2c: imx214: Remove hard-coded external clock frequency

["André Apitzsch" <git@apitzsch.eu>]

Hello Sakari,

Am Dienstag, dem 06.05.2025 um 08:24 +0000 schrieb Sakari Ailus:
> Hi André,
> 
> On Mon, May 05, 2025 at 11:05:56PM +0200, André Apitzsch via B4 Relay
> wrote:
> > From: André Apitzsch <git@apitzsch.eu>
> > 
> > Instead rely on the rate set on the clock (using assigned-clock-
> > rates
> > etc.)
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: André Apitzsch <git@apitzsch.eu>
> > ---
> >  drivers/media/i2c/imx214.c | 6 ------
> >  1 file changed, 6 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/media/i2c/imx214.c
> > b/drivers/media/i2c/imx214.c
> > index
> > 9e9be47394ec768a5b34d44b06b5bbb0988da5a1..c12996e294dccebb18c608254
> > f1e0d14dc064423 100644
> > --- a/drivers/media/i2c/imx214.c
> > +++ b/drivers/media/i2c/imx214.c
> > @@ -32,7 +32,6 @@
> >  
> >  #define IMX214_REG_FAST_STANDBY_CTRL	CCI_REG8(0x0106)
> >  
> > -#define IMX214_DEFAULT_CLK_FREQ	24000000
> >  #define IMX214_DEFAULT_LINK_FREQ	600000000
> >  /* Keep wrong link frequency for backward compatibility */
> >  #define IMX214_DEFAULT_LINK_FREQ_LEGACY	480000000
> > @@ -1405,11 +1404,6 @@ static int imx214_probe(struct i2c_client
> > *client)
> >  		return dev_err_probe(dev, PTR_ERR(imx214->xclk),
> >  				     "failed to get xclk\n");
> >  
> > -	ret = clk_set_rate(imx214->xclk, IMX214_DEFAULT_CLK_FREQ);
> > -	if (ret)
> > -		return dev_err_probe(dev, ret,
> > -				     "failed to set xclk
> > frequency\n");
> > -
> 
> Oops. I missed this is what the driver was doing already. Indeed,
> this is one of the historic sensor drivers that do set the frequency
> in DT systems.
> 
> The driver never used the clock-frequency property and instead used a
> fixed frequency. Changing the behaviour now could be problematic.
> 
> There are options here that I think we could do:
> 
> 1) use your v1 patch (4) which uses "clock-frequency" if it exists
> and otherwise uses the default, fixed frequency or
> 
> 2) set the frequency only if the "clock-frequency" property exists.
> The DT currently requires clock-frequency and the YAML conversion was
> done in 2020 whereas the driver is from 2018. If we do this, the
> clock-frequency should be deprecated (or even removed from bingings).
> 
> I wonder what others think. Cc'd Laurent in any case.

I would go with option 2 and add a patch which updates the bindings,
i.e. which deprecates 'clock-frequency',  to this series.

Best regards,
André
> 
> >  	ret = imx214_get_regulators(dev, imx214);
> >  	if (ret < 0)
> >  		return dev_err_probe(dev, ret, "failed to get
> > regulators\n");
> >