Re: [PATCH 06/10] PCI: qcom: Add support for SC8280XP

[Johan Hovold]

On Fri, Jul 01, 2022 at 12:29:09PM -0600, Rob Herring wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 29, 2022 at 04:09:56PM +0200, Johan Hovold wrote:
> > The SC8280XP platform has seven PCIe controllers: two used with USB4,
> > two 4-lane, two 2-lane and one 1-lane.
> > 
> > Add a new "qcom,pcie-sc8280xp" compatible string and reuse the 1.9.0
> > ops.
> > 
> > Note that the SC8280XP controllers need two or three interconnect
> > clocks to be enabled. Model these as optional clocks to avoid encoding
> > devicetree data in the PCIe driver.
> 
> Shouldn't the interconnect binding handle these? Probably, bus clocks 
> have to be the biggest single reason why clocks are such a mess in terms 
> of 'the same' block having different clocks.

I fully agree, but I ended up following the current scheme of letting
the driver manage these, partly as I lack documentation for the
interconnect. 

Note that two interconnect clocks were recently included in the SM8450
binding:

	https://lore.kernel.org/all/YcIwcUzYCq1v4Kfs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/

and that the generically sounding clock names chosen make it tempting to
repurpose them:

	https://lore.kernel.org/all/1656691899-21315-4-git-send-email-quic_krichai@xxxxxxxxxxx/

which seems like another step backwards.

For MSM8996, it looks like this was instead handled by never disabling
the interconnect clocks: 

	https://lore.kernel.org/all/20171207105922.31986-1-srinivas.kandagatla@xxxxxxxxxx/

Johan