Message-ID: <CAL_JsqJU6HA46J2HBRFaOgd_23d4UoLuGtMZYKtsZR1+7brKvg@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Tue, 27 Aug 2013 10:51:43 -0500
From:	Rob Herring <robherring2@...il.com>
To:	Lee Jones <lee.jones@...aro.org>
Cc:	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
	"devicetree@...r.kernel.org" <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@...gutronix.de>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
	Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/33] ARM: ux500: Supply the I2C clocks lookup to the
 DBX500 DT

On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 9:08 AM, Lee Jones <lee.jones@...aro.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Aug 2013, Mark Rutland wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 09:06:35AM +0100, Lee Jones wrote:
>> > On Fri, 23 Aug 2013, Mark Rutland wrote:
>> >
>> > > On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 08:56:07AM +0100, Lee Jones wrote:
>> > > > I had a short chat with Rob last night about this. I'm going to loop
>> > > > him in to the conversation, as he wrote the binding.
>> > > >
>> > > > > > When most of the other clocks that we deal with are being requested,
>> > > > > > they rely on being index zero:
>> > > > > >
>> > > > > >   drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-nomadik.c: dev->clk = clk_get(&adev->dev, NULL);
>> > > > >
>> > > > > Look at drivers/clk/clkdev.c, there's some fuzzy matching
>> > > > > involved when you pass NULL as connection id.
>> > > >
>> > > > Yes, I've been looking at that. This is why it works currently. I
>> > > > think I need to change all of the drivers to specify which clock they
>> > > > want. At the moment that 'fuzzy matching' is what's saving us. If
>> > > > anyone were to change our DTS file to match what the binding says,
>> > > > then it would cease to work. I'm guessing this is the same for all
>> > > > other DTS files too:
>> > >
>> > > I think if anything, the binding document(s) should be updated to
>> > > describe that apb_pclk is referred to by name, and the names of the
>> > > other clocks should be described in the specific device bindings. We can
>> > > then modify the drivers which grab clock 0 to explicitly grab the first
>> > > clock by name, and backwards compatibility should not be broken.
>> > >
>> > > I don't believe any other OS has implemented the common clock bindings,
>> > > and we've never supported the binding as described. Let's correct the
>> > > de-facto standard into a standard by decree.
>> >
>> > I think we need to respect, or at least take into consideration the
>> > reason for the original 'de-facto' standard. Other OSes shouldn't be
>> > forced to provide a named clock request in order to obtain
>> > 'apb_pclk'. If the binding says it should be first, then perhaps we
>> > should do just that. It's simply a matter of naming all subsequent
>> > clocks related to AMBA devices.
>>
>> Ideally, yes. However, we have to be careful to not break compatibility.
>>
>> I took a look at existing primecell drivers and what they do. The
>> situation isn't so bad (with the exception of the
>> half-dt/half-platform-code mess):
>>
>> * Some don't deal with clocks at all (no clk* in the driver). pl320 is
>>   in the ecx-common dtsi with only apb_pclk but has no binding
>>   defined. Some have no clocks defined in the dt and are presumably few
>>   clocks by platform data or are non-functional.
>>
>>   I'm not sure how these DTs are going to be supported if and when we
>>   remove the platform data they depend upon. If we're really going to do
>>   that, then they are clearly not supported as-is long term.
>>
>> * The pl022 driver grabs the first clock to figure out the rate of the
>>   spi bus (assuming it is SSPCLK). The SSPCLK input is not defined in
>>   the binding. The ste-u300 dts has two clock-names, "apb_pclk" and
>>   "spi_clk" (in that order), but they refer to the same clock.
>>
>>   Given the existing driver simply grabs the first clock and they're
>>   both the same, we could re-order the names and make the driver grab
>>   the second clock. That wouldn't break backwards compatibility with the
>>   sole dts file we have using the binding, though this assumes no-one
>>   else has a dt lying around with different clocks.
>>
>> * pl010 grabs the first clock given to it to figure out the uart rate
>>   (assuming it is UARTCLK), but it's only in integratorap.dts, without
>>   clocks, and is presumably fed by platform data. There is no binding
>>   document.
>>
>>   pl011 grabs the first clock given to figure out the UART rate
>>   (assuming it is UARTCLK). The binding explicitly states it's only
>>   given apb_pclk, despite UARTCLK and PCLK being separate inputs to the
>>   IP block.
>>
>>   These two bindings don't describe the hardware, and should be fixed.
>>   The only way I can think to make this work without breaknig backwards
>>   compatibility would be to try to grab the second clock and then fall
>>   back to the first if there isn't one. The other option is to break
>>   backwards compatibility, but I'm not sure that's much of an option.

This was an oversight since highbank has a single clock. But yes, this
should be 2 clocks. It should be fixed and in a compatible way please.

>> * pl111 has no driver or binding in mainline, but appears in dts files.
>>   Those dts files clcdclk and apb_pclk, in that order. We could fix
>>   those before a driver starts using them.

I think this was waiting for some generic display bindings? Pawel may know.

Rob
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