Re: [PATCH v4 1/7] dt-bindings: clock: Introduce nexus nodes
From: Frank Li
Date: Fri Jul 24 2026 - 14:17:17 EST
On Fri, Jul 17, 2026 at 05:59:17PM +0200, Miquel Raynal (Schneider Electric) wrote:
> Hardware containers can just decouple external resources like clock
> without any more control. Nexus nodes already exist for PWM and GPIOs,
> add a binding to allow them for clocks as well.
>
> No examples are given, the file is litteraly a copy-paste from Hervé
> Codina's work on PWM Nexus nodes, hence we just point to the examples
> there which already illustrate very clearly the concept of the various
> properties.
>
> Signed-off-by: Miquel Raynal (Schneider Electric) <miquel.raynal@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
Reviewed-by: Frank Li <Frank.Li@xxxxxxx>
> .../bindings/clock/clock-nexus-node.yaml | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 30 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/clock/clock-nexus-node.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/clock/clock-nexus-node.yaml
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..ff3283bd5fb1
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/clock/clock-nexus-node.yaml
> @@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
> +# SPDX-License-Identifier: (GPL-2.0-only OR BSD-2-Clause)
> +%YAML 1.2
> +---
> +$id: http://devicetree.org/schemas/clock/clock-nexus-node.yaml#
> +$schema: http://devicetree.org/meta-schemas/core.yaml#
> +
> +title: Clock Nexus
> +
> +description: >
> + A nexus node allows to remap a clock specifier list in a consumer node
> + through a container or a connector node in a generic way. With this
> + remapping, the consumer node needs to know only about the nexus
> + node. Resources behind the nexus node are decoupled by the nexus node
> + itself.
> +
> +maintainers:
> + - Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> +
> +select: true
> +
> +properties:
> + clock-map:
> + $ref: /schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/uint32-matrix
> +
> +dependentRequired:
> + clock-map: ['#clock-cells']
> +
> +additionalProperties: true
> +
> +# See the original pwm-nexus-node.yaml description for examples
>
> --
> 2.54.0
>