+ some OMAP folks and Linux OMAP list
On Tuesday 25 July 2017 04:21 AM, Franklin Cooper wrote:
> Hclk is the MCAN's interface clock. However, for OMAP based devices such as
> DRA7 SoC family the interface clock is handled by hwmod. Therefore, this
> interface clock is managed by hwmod driver via pm_runtime_get and
> pm_runtime_put calls. Therefore, this interface clock isn't defined in DT
> and thus the driver shouldn't fail if this clock isn't found.
I agree that hclk is defined as interface clock for M_CAN IP on DRA76x.
However, there may be a need for the driver to know the value of hclk to
properly configure the RAM watchdog register which has a counter
counting down using hclk. Looks like the driver does not use the RAM
watchdog today. But if there is a need to configure it in future, it
might be a problem.
Is there a restriction in OMAP architecture against passing the
interface clock also in the 'clocks' property in DT. I have not tried it
myself, but wonder if you hit an issue that led to this patch.
>
> Signed-off-by: Franklin S Cooper Jr <fcoo...@ti.com>
> ---
> Version 2 changes:
> Used NULL instead of 0 for unused hclk handle
>
> drivers/net/can/m_can/m_can.c | 9 +++++++--
> 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/can/m_can/m_can.c b/drivers/net/can/m_can/m_can.c
> index f4947a7..ea48e59 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/can/m_can/m_can.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/can/m_can/m_can.c
> @@ -1568,8 +1568,13 @@ static int m_can_plat_probe(struct platform_device
> *pdev)
> hclk = devm_clk_get(&pdev->dev, "hclk");
> cclk = devm_clk_get(&pdev->dev, "cclk");
>
> - if (IS_ERR(hclk) || IS_ERR(cclk)) {
> - dev_err(&pdev->dev, "no clock found\n");
> + if (IS_ERR(hclk)) {
> + dev_warn(&pdev->dev, "hclk could not be found\n");
> + hclk = NULL;
What is the purpose of NULL setting the clock. I think this is taking it
into a very implementation defined territory and the result could be
different on different architectures. See Russell's explanation here:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/11/10/799
Thanks,
Sekhar
> + }
> +
> + if (IS_ERR(cclk)) {
> + dev_err(&pdev->dev, "cclk could not be found\n");
> ret = -ENODEV;
> goto failed_ret;
> }
>
