Re: [PATCH v5 2/5] clk: shmobile: div6: Make clock-output-names optional

From: Geert Uytterhoeven
Date: Fri Oct 30 2015 - 09:57:20 EST


On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 2:47 PM, Laurent Pinchart
<laurent.pinchart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thursday 29 October 2015 12:21:01 Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>> Renesas DIV6 clocks provide a single clock output. Hence make the
>> "clock-output-names" DT property optional instead of mandatory. In case
>> the DT property is omitted the DT node name will be used.
>>
>> Rename the variable "name" to "clk_name" to make the code more similar
>> with fixed-factor-clock.c, and to avoid a conflict with a nested local
>> variable while we're at it.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@xxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> v5:
>> - Integrated in this series as a dependency.
>
> The patch looks sane, by why is it a dependency ?

Sorry, the cover letter is clearer about this: "contextual dependency".

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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