Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] crypto: caam - do not initialise clocks on the i.MX8

From: Andrey Smirnov
Date: Tue Jun 11 2019 - 22:06:03 EST


On Tue, Jun 11, 2019 at 2:56 AM Horia Geanta <horia.geanta@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 6/7/2019 11:03 PM, Andrey Smirnov wrote:
> > From: Chris Spencer <christopher.spencer@xxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > There are no clocks that the CAAM driver needs to initialise on the
> > i.MX8.
> >
> RM lists 5 clocks for CAAM module (instance.clock): caam.aclk, caam.ipg_clk,
> caam.ipg_clk_s, caam_exsc.aclk_exsc, caam_mem.clk
>
> Wouldn't it be better to have these clocks in DT, instead of relying that their
> root clocks (ccm_ahb_clk_root, ccm_ipg_clk_root) are critical / always on?
>

Is it even possible to use the SoC in a meaningful way if
ccm_ahb_clk_root or ccm_ipg_clk_root are disabled? It doesn't seem
that dependency on either is expressed in a consistent manner for
other IP blocks in imx8mq.dtsi. OTOH, it should be trivial to add
<&clk IMX8MQ_CLK_IPG_ROOT> and <&clk IMX8MQ_CLK_AHB> as "ipg" and
"aclk" to CAAM node and it would allow me to drop an extra patch from
the series, so I may as well do it.

Thanks,
Andrey Smirnov