Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752545AbaKQVuT (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Nov 2014 16:50:19 -0500 Received: from mail-pd0-f171.google.com ([209.85.192.171]:41713 "EHLO mail-pd0-f171.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751464AbaKQVuQ (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Nov 2014 16:50:16 -0500 From: Kevin Hilman To: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Grygorii Strashko , ssantosh@kernel.org, "Rafael J. Wysocki" , linux-pm@vger.kernel.org, Rob Herring , grant.likely@secretlab.ca, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org, Ulf Hansson , Geert Uytterhoeven , Dmitry Torokhov Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/2] ARM: keystone: pm: switch to use generic pm domains References: <1415631557-22897-1-git-send-email-grygorii.strashko@ti.com> <1600093.60yAP0Qpua@wuerfel> <7h389h3aif.fsf@deeprootsystems.com> <1618855.DXsjWXLqau@wuerfel> Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 13:50:13 -0800 In-Reply-To: <1618855.DXsjWXLqau@wuerfel> (Arnd Bergmann's message of "Mon, 17 Nov 2014 21:37:37 +0100") Message-ID: <7hsihhzecq.fsf@deeprootsystems.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Arnd Bergmann writes: > On Monday 17 November 2014 11:14:16 Kevin Hilman wrote: >> >> >> >> So, The Keystone 2 Generic PM Controller is just a proxy PM layer here between >> >> device and Generic clock manipulation PM callbacks. >> >> It fills per-device clock list when device is attached to GPD and >> >> ensures that all clocks from that list enabled/disabled when device is >> >> started/stopped. >> > >> > The idea of such a generic power domain implementation sounds useful, but >> > it has absolutely no business in platform specific code. >> >> Yes it does. This isn't a generic power domain implementation, but >> rather just the platform-specific glue that hooks up the clocks to the >> right devices and power-domains so that the generic power-domain and >> generic pm_clocks code does the right thing. > > How would you do this on an arm64 version of keystone then? With > the current approach, you'd need to add a machine specific directory, > and that seems completely pointless since this is not even about > a hardware requirement. Yeah, you're right. I misunderstood you're original comment. >> > I suggest you either remove the power domain proxy from your drivers >> > and use the clocks directly, >> >> No. That's a step in the wrong direction. This change isn't affecting >> drivers directly. It's the runtime PM and generic power domain layers >> that handle this, and runtime PM adapted drivers don't need any changes. >> >> > or come up with an implementation that can be used across other >> > platforms and CPU architectures. >> >> We already have those in the generic power domain and the pm_clock >> layers. This series is just hooking those up for Keystone. > > Then why not add the missing piece to the generic power domain > code to avoid having to add infrastructure to the platform > for it? Yes, good point. There is nothing keystone-specific in this glue. Grygorii, what about adding a feature to the generic domain parsing so that it can get clocks from device nodes that are part of the domain, and so it sets up pm_clk accordingly. I've recently seen other SoCs doing very similar, so this really should be generalized. I've been looking at this primarily as a right incremental improvement from what is there for Keystone today, but Arnd is right. This should be moved out of platform code. Kevin -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/