[PATCH] clk: fixed-rate: Use "clock-output-names" to name fixed clocks

Fabio Estevam festevam at gmail.com
Thu Apr 17 14:31:56 CEST 2025


From: Fabio Estevam <festevam at denx.de>

Currently, fixed-rate clocks in U-Boot are named based on their devicetree
node names. For example, given the following node:

osc_24m: clock-osc-24m {
	compatible = "fixed-clock";
	#clock-cells = <0>;
	clock-frequency = <24000000>;
	clock-output-names = "osc_24m";
};

U-Boot registers the clock as "clock-osc-24m", derived from the node name,
ignoring the clock-output-names property.

This differs from Linux, which uses the clock-output-names property when
assigning clock names. As a result, clock consumers expecting names
like "osc_24m" (as defined in the property) may fail to resolve clocks
correctly in U-Boot.

Update the fixed-rate clock driver to check for the clock-output-names
property and use it as the clock name if present. If not, the fallback
remains the node name. This makes U-Boot behavior consistent with Linux.

One concrete impact is on i.MX8MP, where USB clock lookup failed following
commit b4734c9c333b ("clk: imx: Convert clock-osc-* back to osc_*").

With this change applied, fixed-clocks are correctly registered with their
expected names:

u-boot=> clk dump
 Rate               Usecnt      Name
------------------------------------------
 32768                0        |-- osc_32k
 24000000             5        |-- osc_24m

This change restores i.MX8MP USB functionality by ensuring the proper clock
names are used.

Fixes: b4734c9c333b ("clk: imx: Convert clock-osc-* back to osc_*")
Reported-by: Francesco Dolcini <francesco.dolcini at toradex.com>
Signed-off-by: Fabio Estevam <festevam at denx.de>
---
 drivers/clk/clk_fixed_rate.c | 12 ++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/clk/clk_fixed_rate.c b/drivers/clk/clk_fixed_rate.c
index d1da05cc18a5..7b89f9c80e95 100644
--- a/drivers/clk/clk_fixed_rate.c
+++ b/drivers/clk/clk_fixed_rate.c
@@ -35,6 +35,8 @@ void clk_fixed_rate_ofdata_to_plat_(struct udevice *dev,
 				    struct clk_fixed_rate *plat)
 {
 	struct clk *clk = &plat->clk;
+	const char *clk_name;
+
 	if (CONFIG_IS_ENABLED(OF_REAL))
 		plat->fixed_rate = dev_read_u32_default(dev, "clock-frequency",
 							0);
@@ -45,6 +47,16 @@ void clk_fixed_rate_ofdata_to_plat_(struct udevice *dev,
 
 	clk->dev = dev;
 	clk->enable_count = 0;
+
+	/*
+	 * If the "clock-output-names" property is present, use it
+	 * as the clock name, like it is done in Linux.
+	 * Otherwise, the original behavior will be preserved: the fixed clock
+	 * name will be its node name.
+	 *
+	 */
+	if (!(dev_read_string_index(dev, "clock-output-names", 0, &clk_name)))
+		dev->name = clk_name;
 }
 
 static ulong clk_fixed_rate_raw_get_rate(struct clk *clk)
-- 
2.34.1



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