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Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 21:05:20 -0700
From: Saravana Kannan <skannan@codeaurora.org>
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To: Rajendra Nayak <rnayak@ti.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] clk: Add support for rate table based dividers
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On 05/21/2012 09:45 PM, Rajendra Nayak wrote:
> Hi Ben,
>
> On Monday 21 May 2012 03:17 PM, Ben Dooks wrote:
>> On 17/05/12 11:22, Rajendra Nayak wrote:
>>> Some divider clks do not have any obvious relationship
>>> between the divider and the value programmed in the
>>> register. For instance, say a value of 1 could signify divide
>>> by 6 and a value of 2 could signify divide by 4 etc.
>>> Also there are dividers where not all values possible
>>> based on the bitfield width are valid. For instance
>>> a 3 bit wide bitfield can be used to program a value
>>> from 0 to 7. However its possible that only 0 to 4
>>> are valid values.
>>>
>>> All these cases need the platform code to pass a simple
>>> table of divider/value tuple, so the framework knows
>>> the exact value to be written based on the divider
>>> calculation and can also do better error checking.
>>>
>>> This patch adds support for such rate table based
>>> dividers.
>>
>> I was considering the idea that you simply pass a
>> pointer to a set of routines and a data pointer to
>> the clk-divider code so that any new cases don't
>> require changing the drivers/clk/clk-divider.c
>
> I don;t know if I understand your comment completely.
> Are you suggesting the get min/max etc be function pointers
> passed by platform code (and implemented in platform code?)
> so clk-divider does not need an update every time a new divider
> type is added?
> The idea of extending clk-divider was so its useful for more
> than just OMAP, so the code in clk-divider can be reused across
> multiple platforms. Did I understand your comment right?
>
> regards,
> Rajendra
>
>>
>> This would make the get max / min / special just
>> a function call through a struct.
>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Rajendra Nayak<rnayak@ti.com>
>>> ---
>>> drivers/clk/clk-divider.c | 67
>>> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
>>> include/linux/clk-private.h | 3 +-
>>> include/linux/clk-provider.h | 10 +++++-
>>> 3 files changed, 75 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/drivers/clk/clk-divider.c b/drivers/clk/clk-divider.c
>>> index e548c43..e4911ee 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/clk/clk-divider.c
>>> +++ b/drivers/clk/clk-divider.c
>>> @@ -32,30 +32,69 @@
>>> #define div_mask(d) ((1<< (d->width)) - 1)
>>> #define is_power_of_two(i) !(i& ~i)
>>>
>>> +static unsigned int _get_table_maxdiv(const struct clk_div_table
>>> *table)
>>> +{
>>> + unsigned int maxdiv;
>>> + const struct clk_div_table *clkt;
>>> +
>>> + for (clkt = table; clkt->div; clkt++)
>>> + if (clkt->div> maxdiv)
>>> + maxdiv = clkt->div;
>>> + return maxdiv;
>>> +}
>>> +
>>> static unsigned int _get_maxdiv(struct clk_divider *divider)
>>> {
>>> if (divider->flags& CLK_DIVIDER_ONE_BASED)
>>> return div_mask(divider);
>>> if (divider->flags& CLK_DIVIDER_POWER_OF_TWO)
>>> return 1<< div_mask(divider);

Where are these flags defined? I don't see it in any of the patches in 
the series. Is my search foo not up to par today?

I think what Ben is saying is that you provider a way (using function or 
data/table pointers in clk_divider) that will allow the clk provider to 
define a "divider" to "register value" mapping. Say you decide to do 
that using a function pointer, then you would implement the following in 
clk-divider.c.

div_to_reg_one_based
div_to_reg_pow_two

The actual clock-provider code will pick one of these or implement their 
own mapping function. That way, clk-divider won't have to change for any 
other convoluted variants of clk divider to register value mapping.

-Saravana

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