linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/7] MIPS: ralink: add CPU clock detection and clock gate driver for MT7621

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Date:   Fri, 13 Nov 2020 08:40:09 +0800
From:   Chuanhong Guo <gch981213@...il.com>
To:     Sergio Paracuellos <sergio.paracuellos@...il.com>
Cc:     Michael Turquette <mturquette@...libre.com>,
        Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...nel.org>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@...ha.franken.de>,
        John Crispin <john@...ozen.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Weijie Gao <hackpascal@...il.com>, jiaxun.yang@...goat.com,
        "open list:COMMON CLK FRAMEWORK" <linux-clk@...r.kernel.org>,
        "open list:OPEN FIRMWARE AND FLATTENED DEVICE TREE BINDINGS" 
        <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>,
        open list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "open list:MIPS" <linux-mips@...r.kernel.org>,
        "open list:STAGING SUBSYSTEM" <devel@...verdev.osuosl.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] MIPS: ralink: add CPU clock detection and clock gate
 driver for MT7621

On Thu, Nov 12, 2020 at 1:23 PM Sergio Paracuellos
<sergio.paracuellos@...il.com> wrote:
>
> To avoid weird behaviour because of some drivers are
> not using properly clocks we have the CLK_IGNORED_UNUSED, which as you
> can see is currently being used in my code. Using that all seems to
> work as expected as it is now.

The whole point of having a clock gate driver is to gate unused
clocks to save (maybe a tiny bit of) power. It's other peripheral
drivers' fault that it doesn't enable clocks properly and we shouldn't
just work-around the problem in the clock driver by disallowing auto
clock gating.

-- 
Regards,
Chuanhong Guo