Re: [PATCH 10/18] ASoC: sti: Update example to include assigned-clocks and mclk-fs

[Peter Griffin]

Hi Mark,

On Tue, 26 Apr 2016, Mark Brown wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 05:14:32PM +0100, Peter Griffin wrote:
> > On Tue, 26 Apr 2016, Mark Brown wrote:
> 
> > > A lot of this is details of the system integration for this SoC, not
> > > actual errors.
> 
> > This particular clock patch yes, but the other ASoC dt doc update is fixing
> > bindings which haven't progressed in lockstep with the driver code. Presumably
> > this happened during the review process when they were changed to being st,
> > prefixed in the driver, but the doc wasn't also updated.
> 
> The bits where you are correcting the names of the properties are not
> details of the system integration and are therefore fine.  The bits
> where you're documenting the particular clocking arrangements for the
> SoC you happen to be using less so.

Ok sounds good. With that in mind I will drop this clocking patch in v4
and just leave the one which updates the ASoC bindings mismatch.

> 
> > > it's fairly routine
> > > to have to explain to people that just because some old driver did
> > > something that doesn't mean it's something we want in new drivers.
> 
> > I'm sure it is. Although I fail to see why leaving the documentation with
> > mistakes in is helpful to anybody.
> 
> Fixing actual mistakes is fine.

Peter.