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Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/5] clk: eyeq5: add controller
From: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@kernel.org>
Cc: Vladimir Kondratiev <vladimir.kondratiev@mobileye.com>, linux-mips@vger.kernel.org, linux-clk@vger.kernel.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>, Tawfik Bayouk <tawfik.bayouk@mobileye.com>
To: Conor Dooley <conor+dt@kernel.org>, Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement@bootlin.com>, Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski+dt@linaro.org>, Michael Turquette <mturquette@baylibre.com>, Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>, Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>, =?utf-8?q?Th=C3=A9o?= Lebrun <theo.lebrun@bootlin.com>
Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2024 15:47:10 -0800
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Quoting Th=C3=A9o Lebrun (2023-12-27 08:30:20)
>=20
> I went ahead with a V2, feeling it would be more productive to come up
> with something and gather comments on concrete stuff. There were many
> other things to address anyway.
>=20
> I've addressed this point by declaring a dummy fixed-clock in the
> devicetree that gets fed to the GIC timer. It is pretty much the same
> thing as using `clock-frequency` which this specific clocksource uses
> if `of_clk_get(node, 0)` fails. With the sent approach we have the
> timer appear in the clock tree as a consumer.

If the frequency is fixed then this seems fine to do always.