Re: [PATCH 3/4] drm/tegra: Add VIC support

[Thierry Reding]

On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 06:44:08PM +0300, Mikko Perttunen wrote:
> On 05/21/2015 06:10 PM, Arto Merilainen wrote:
> >...
> >>>+
> >>>+    vic->rst = devm_reset_control_get(dev, "vic03");
> >>
> >>I might prefer just "vic" as the clock/reset name. The name is often
> >>used as a sort of "role" for the clock/reset for the device, not
> >>necessarily the raw name of the "correct" clock/reset.
> >>
> >
> >I considered that - but I then noticed that
> >drivers/clk/tegra/clk-tegra124.c was already using vic03 variant. I can
> >write a patch for changing that too.
> 
> Well, the two can be different; the clock-name in device tree kind of means
> "string that i use to refer to a clock that powers the VIC unit". It's not
> really a big deal though, both ways are used in DT bindings.

I'll insist on calling this vic in the clock-names property. The 03 is
as far as I can tell an encoding of the version number, so if you want
to call this vic04 in some future version we'll have to needlessly
patch the driver.

Thierry

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