Message ID | 20220715044948.434149-1-cosmin.tanislav@analog.com |
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Headers | show |
Series | AD4130 | expand |
On 7/18/22 16:14, Linus Walleij wrote: > Hi Cosmin, > > thanks for your patch! > > On Fri, Jul 15, 2022 at 6:50 AM Cosmin Tanislav <demonsingur@gmail.com> wrote: > >> AD4130-8 is an ultra-low power, high precision, measurement solution for >> low bandwidth battery operated applications. >> >> The fully integrated AFE (Analog Front-End) includes a multiplexer for up >> to 16 single-ended or 8 differential inputs, PGA (Programmable Gain >> Amplifier), 24-bit Sigma-Delta ADC, on-chip reference and oscillator, >> selectable filter options, smart sequencer, sensor biasing and excitation >> options, diagnostics, and a FIFO buffer. >> >> Signed-off-by: Cosmin Tanislav <cosmin.tanislav@analog.com> >> Reviewed-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org> > (...) > > This caught my eye: > >> + adi,int-clk-out: >> + description: Specify if the internal clock should be exposed on the CLK pin. >> + type: boolean > > Okay, but would it not make more sense to just imply this if the clock > on the CLK > pin has any consumers? Like update this setting in hardware when the consumer > does clk_prepare() or so on that externally routed clock? > You're right, this is indeed fit for being implemented using the clock framework. >> + adi,ext-clk-freq-hz: >> + description: Specify the frequency of the external clock. >> + enum: [76800, 153600] >> + default: 76800 > > This looks like cheating, i.e just outputting a clock on that pin > and ignoring to model the consumer. You got this wrong. The chip has 4 operating modes regarding clocking. Internal 76.8kHz clock (clkout can be used as an interrupt pin). Internal 76.8kHz clock, available externally on the clkout pin (clkout becomes an output). External 76.8kHz clock (clkout is an input). External 153.6kHz clock, internally divided by two (clkout is an input). This property is used to choose between what frequency to set the external clock up with. Indeed, if the external clock is not present, then exposing the 76.8kHz clock using the clock framework would be fine. Maybe you have a better suggestion about what to do with this? How do I tell the chip what frequency the external clock is, but also tell the clock what frequency to use? It's a bit of a conundrum for me. > > Shouldn't this rather be a clkout subnode with 2 #clock-cells > and the fequency set in a cell in a consumer phandle? > Like how I did in > commit 7335631fcd5eecfa84555bd57433e6446d06ad21 > "dt-bindings: clock: u8500: Add clkout clock bindings" > > Usually it is the consumer that requests a specific clock and then the > producer will respond. > > Certainly whatever is consuming this clock needs to be in the device tree > as well, and then this is the right pattern. > > (In Linux you will then use the clk framework to manage the clock and callbacks > but that is irrelevant for the DT bindings.) > >> + adi,bipolar: >> + description: Specify if the device should be used in bipolar mode. >> + type: boolean > > Can you explain what this means? I don't understand what it would > mean for an analog device / AFE to be in bipolar mode. > Range becomes [-VRef, VRef], as opposed to [0, VRef], resolution is halved. > Other than that it looks very nice! > > Yours, > Linus Walleij
On Thu, Sep 8, 2022 at 9:03 AM Cosmin Tanislav <demonsingur@gmail.com> wrote: > >> + adi,ext-clk-freq-hz: > >> + description: Specify the frequency of the external clock. > >> + enum: [76800, 153600] > >> + default: 76800 > > > > This looks like cheating, i.e just outputting a clock on that pin > > and ignoring to model the consumer. > > You got this wrong. > > The chip has 4 operating modes regarding clocking. > > Internal 76.8kHz clock (clkout can be used as an interrupt pin). > Internal 76.8kHz clock, available externally on the clkout pin (clkout > becomes an output). > External 76.8kHz clock (clkout is an input). > External 153.6kHz clock, internally divided by two (clkout is an input). > > This property is used to choose between what frequency to set the > external clock up with. Indeed, if the external clock is not present, > then exposing the 76.8kHz clock using the clock framework would be fine. > > Maybe you have a better suggestion about what to do with this? > How do I tell the chip what frequency the external clock is, but also > tell the clock what frequency to use? It's a bit of a conundrum for me. I would imagine not specify in the device tree what frequency to use at all. Instead use software for that. The clock provide for the clkout should provide static const struct clk_ops extclk_ops = { .recalc_rate = extclk_recalc_rate, .round_rate = extclk_round_rate, .set_rate = extclk_set_rate, }; This way the consumer driver can issue clk_round_rate(), clk_set_rate() etc to make the clk driver determine which parent to use for the consumer. Likewise .enable or .prepare should then mux out the desired clock. > >> + adi,bipolar: > >> + description: Specify if the device should be used in bipolar mode. > >> + type: boolean > > > > Can you explain what this means? I don't understand what it would > > mean for an analog device / AFE to be in bipolar mode. > > > > Range becomes [-VRef, VRef], as opposed to [0, VRef], resolution is > halved. OK that makes sense, put that in the binding description. Yours, Linus Walleij