[Linux-stm32] [PATCH 4/7] dt-bindings: chosen: Add clocksource and clockevent selection

[Sudeep Holla]

On Tue, Sep 10, 2019 at 02:51:50PM +0000, Claudiu.Beznea at microchip.com wrote:
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> On 10.09.2019 17:32, Sudeep Holla wrote:
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> > On Tue, Sep 10, 2019 at 04:47:13PM +0300, Claudiu Beznea wrote:
> >> From: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni at bootlin.com>
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> >> Some timer drivers may behave either as clocksource or clockevent
> >> or both. Until now, in case of platforms with multiple hardware
> >> resources of the same type, the drivers were chosing the first
> >> registered hardware resource as clocksource/clockevent and the
> >> next one as clockevent/clocksource. Other were using different
> >> compatibles (one for each functionality, although its about the
> >> same hardware). Add DT bindings to be able to choose the
> >> functionality of a timer.
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> > Is the piece of hardware not capable of serving as both clocksource
> > and clockevent or is it just the platform choice ?
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> In my case, the hardware is not capable of serving at the same time
> a clocksource device and a clockevent device.
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> First, I published v1 for a hardware device having this behavior at
> [1] requesting 1st probed hardware device to work as clocksource and
> the 2nd one to work as clockevent. The discussion at [1] ended up with
> the idea of having a mechanism to specify which hardware device behaves
> as clocksource and which one behaves as clockevent.
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In that case, why can't we identify capability that with the compatibles
for this timer IP ?

IOW, I don't like the proposal as it's hardware limitation.

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Regards,
Sudeep