On 08/09/2011 02:49 PM, Robin Holt wrote: > On Tue, Aug 09, 2011 at 12:41:39PM +0000, U Bhaskar-B22300 wrote: >> >> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: Wolfgang Grandegger [mailto:[email protected]] >>> Sent: Tuesday, August 09, 2011 4:19 PM >>> To: U Bhaskar-B22300 >>> Cc: Marc Kleine-Budde; [email protected]; >>> [email protected]; [email protected] >>> Subject: Re: [RFC 5/5] [powerpc] Implement a p1010rdb clock source. >>> >>> On 08/09/2011 11:27 AM, U Bhaskar-B22300 wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>> -----Original Message----- >>>>> From: Wolfgang Grandegger [mailto:[email protected]] >>>>> Sent: Tuesday, August 09, 2011 2:03 PM >>>>> To: U Bhaskar-B22300 >>>>> Cc: Marc Kleine-Budde; [email protected]; >>>>> [email protected]; [email protected] >>>>> Subject: Re: [RFC 5/5] [powerpc] Implement a p1010rdb clock source. >>>>> >>>>> Hi Bhaskar, >>>>> >>>>> On 08/09/2011 09:57 AM, U Bhaskar-B22300 wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>> -----Original Message----- >>>>>>> From: Marc Kleine-Budde [mailto:[email protected]] >>>>>>> Sent: Tuesday, August 09, 2011 12:23 AM >>>>>>> To: Wolfgang Grandegger >>>>>>> Cc: [email protected]; [email protected]; U >>>>>>> Bhaskar- B22300 >>>>>>> Subject: Re: [RFC 5/5] [powerpc] Implement a p1010rdb clock source. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> On 08/08/2011 05:33 PM, Wolfgang Grandegger wrote: >>>>>>>>> ACK - The device tree bindings as in mainline's Documentation is >>>>>>>>> a >>>>>>> mess. >>>>>>>>> If the powerpc guys are happy with a clock interfaces based >>>>>>>>> approach somewhere in arch/ppc, I'm more than happy to remove: >>>>>>>>> - fsl,flexcan-clock-source (not implemented, even in the fsl >>>>>>>>> driver) >>>>>> [Bhaskar]I have pushed the FlexCAN series of patches, It contains >>>>>> the usage of all the fields posted in the FlexCAN bindings at >>>>>> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-3.0.y.git;a=b >>>>>> lo >>>>>> b;f=Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/can/fsl-flexcan.txt;h=1a72 >>>>>> 9f >>>>>> 089866259ef82d0db5893ff7a8c54d5ccf;hb=94ed5b4788a7cdbe68bc7cb8516972 >>>>>> cb >>>>>> ebdc8274 >>>>> >>>>> As Marc already pointed out, Robin already has a much more advanced >>>>> patch stack in preparation. Especially your patches do not care about >>>>> the already existing Flexcan core on the Freescale's ARM socks. >>>> [Bhaskar] No, the patches are taking care of the existing ARM >>> functionality. >>>> I have not tested on the ARM based board, but the patches are made >>> in a >>>> Manner that it should not break the ARM based functionality. >>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> - fsl,flexcan-clock-divider \__ replace with code in arch/ppc, or >>>>>>>>> - clock-frequency / a single clock-frequency attribute >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> In the "net-next-2.6" tree there is also: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> $ grep flexcan arch/powerpc/boots/dts/*.dts >>>>>>>> p1010rdb.dts: fsl,flexcan-clock-source = >>>>> "platform"; >>>>>>>> p1010rdb.dts: fsl,flexcan-clock-source = >>>>> "platform"; >>>>>>>> p1010si.dtsi: compatible = "fsl,flexcan-v1.0"; >>>>>>>> p1010si.dtsi: fsl,flexcan-clock-divider = <2>; >>>>>>>> p1010si.dtsi: compatible = "fsl,flexcan-v1.0"; >>>>>>>> p1010si.dtsi: fsl,flexcan-clock-divider = <2>; >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Especially the fsl,flexcan-clock-divider = <2>; might make people >>>>>>>> think, that they could set something else. >>>>>>> >>>>>> [Bhaskar] As it is mentioned in the Flexcan bindings, the need of >>>>> fsl,flexcan-clock-divider = <2>; >>>>>> But I kept it as "2" because FlexCan clock source is the >>>>> platform clock and it is CCB/2 >>>>>> If the "2" is misleading, the bindings can be changed or some >>>>> text can be written to make the meaning of "2" >>>>>> Understandable , Please suggest .. >>>>> >>>>> The clock source and frequency is fixed. Why do we need an extra >>>>> properties for that. We have panned to remove these bogus bindings >>>>> from the Linux kernel, which sneaked in *without* any review on the >>>>> relevant mailing lists (at least I have not realized any posting). We >>>>> do not think they are really needed. They just confuse the user. We >>>>> also prefer to use the compatibility string "fsl,flexcan" instead >>>>> "fsl,flexcan-v1.0". It's unusual to add a version number, which is >>>>> for the Flexcan on the PowerPC cores only, I assume, but there will >>>>> be device tree for ARM soon. A proper compatibility string would be >>>>> "fsl,p1010-flexcan" if we really need to distinguish. >>>>> >>>> [Bhaskar] About clock source.. There can be two sources of clock for >>> the CAN. >>>> Oscillator or the platform clock, but at present only platform >>> clock is supported >>>> in P1010.If we remove the fsl,flexcan-clock-source property, we >>> will lost the flexibility >>>> of changing the clock source .. >>>> >>>> About clock-frequency... it is also not fixed. It depends on >>> the platform clock which in turns >>>> Depends on the CCB clock. So it will be better to keep clock- >>> frequency property which is getting fixed via u-boot. >>> >>> The frequency is fixed to CCB-frequency / 2. Will that ever change? What >>> can we expect from future Flexcan hardware? Will it support further clock >>> sources? >> [Bhaskar] Yes the frequency will always be CCB-frequency/2.Even if the CCB >> gets changed that will be taken care by the u-boot fixup code for >> clock-frequency. clock-frequency is not filled by somebody in the dts >> file. It will be done by u-boot. >> For clock source,I can't say right now, that's why I have kept a >> property for this in the can node. So that in future, we need to fill it >> appropriately > > Speaking of the dts file, I have left the p1010si.dtsi file with > the fsl,flexcan-v1.0 .compatible definition. The flexcan folks > (IIRC Wolfgang) objected to that as it does not follow the standard > which should be just fsl,flexcan. > > How would you like to change that? Should I add it as part of this patch, > add another patch to the series, or let you take care of it? > > Also, I assume the uboot project will need to be changed as well to > reflect the corrected name.
I think you should provide patches within this series to cleanup the obsolete stuff, dts and binding doc. Wolfgang. _______________________________________________ Socketcan-core mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/socketcan-core
