Re: [PATCH 2/9] dt-bindings: mmc: sprd: Add another optional clock documentation

From: Ulf Hansson
Date: Tue Jun 04 2019 - 02:57:28 EST


On Tue, 4 Jun 2019 at 04:33, Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi Ulf,
>
> On Mon, 3 Jun 2019 at 21:34, Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, 20 May 2019 at 12:12, Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > For some Spreadtrum platforms like SC9860 platform, we should enable another
> > > gate clock '2x_enable' to make the SD host controller work well. Thus add
> > > documentation for this optional clock.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > > .../devicetree/bindings/mmc/sdhci-sprd.txt | 1 +
> > > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mmc/sdhci-sprd.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mmc/sdhci-sprd.txt
> > > index 45c9978..a285c77 100644
> > > --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mmc/sdhci-sprd.txt
> > > +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mmc/sdhci-sprd.txt
> > > @@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ Required properties:
> > > - clock-names: Should contain the following:
> > > "sdio" - SDIO source clock (required)
> > > "enable" - gate clock which used for enabling/disabling the device (required)
> > > + "2x_enable" - gate clock controlling the device for some special platforms (optional)
> >
> > This is a bit vague, could you please elaborate (and fold in that
> > information to the doc) on what kind of clock this is?
>
> Sorry for confusing. For some Spreadtrum platfroms like SC9860
> platform, we should enable 2 gate clocks to enable SD host controller,
> that means we have 2 serialized clock gates. I know that's a little
> weird, but that's our clock's design.

Okay, just wanted to make sure this new clock isn't something that
should be modeled through the clock tree.

Thanks for explaining, then I am happy with the patch as is.

Kind regards
Uffe