On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 07:46:34PM +0800, Shengjiu Wang wrote:
The spdif root clock may be used by other module or defined with CLK_SET_RATE_GATE, so we can't change the clock rate in driver. In this patch remove the clk_set_rate and clk_round_rate to protect the clock.
It's a quite convenient and conservative way to remove the clock dealing code in the driver, however, it may result less flexible functionalities.
The reason why I left the clk_set_rate() in the driver is to hope we may find a better way to tackle those tough situations. For IP itself, it doesn't matter if the clock the SoC provides to it is being shared by other modules or not.
So I think, if it's a shared clock, we should not define it as a rate-changeable one in the SoC level, as we might still have some SoCs provide a dedicated clock to S/PDIF so as to get the maximum range of clock support for users.
@Shawn Sorry to involve you in this topic. I'm not so sure if we can do this in the clock driver so that the clock rate would be fixed even if the driver is trying to change it. If we can, I think we may use a better solution here instead.
Thank you Nicolin