Re: mvebu: Can we make the orion-mdio clock a requirement?

[Sebastian Hesselbarth <sebastian.hesselbarth@gmail.com>]

On 07/21/2014 09:28 PM, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Jul 2014 16:06:15 -0300, Ezequiel Garcia wrote:
>> Currently the mvmdio driver does not require a clock to be declared,
>> and instead this is optional.
>>
>> However (almost) all the platforms that currently use it, i.e. the
>> Armada, Kirkwood and Dove SoCs, require some clock to be enabled before
>> the MDIO registers can be accessed.
>>
>> The Orion5x SoC doesn't declare any clock for neither the ethernet node,
>> nor the MDIO node. Is that correct?
> 
> There are no gatable clocks on Orion5x, so unless the driver really
> wants a clock, there's no hard requirement to give a clock reference.
> 
>> Do you think we could make the clock a required property in the mvmdio
>> devicetree node? How would that behave in the non-DT case?
> 
> I don't think the mvmdio driver is used in non-DT contexts.
> 
> However, yes, I tend to agree, making the clock mandatory would
> probably be a good thing.

We can always pass TCLK on Orion5x if there is a need for a mandatory
clock. Anyway, IIRC clock framework should now properly return
-EPROPEDEFER only if there is a clock property set. If there is none,
the error is different and can be catched on Orion5x.

Sebastian