Re: [PATCH 2/3] firmware: qcom: scm: Refactor clock handling

From: Stephen Boyd
Date: Thu Aug 30 2018 - 21:07:00 EST


Quoting Bjorn Andersson (2018-08-29 16:15:04)
> At one point in time all "future" platforms required three clocks, so
> the binding and driver was written to treat this as the default case.
> But new platforms has no clock requirements, which currently makes them
> all a special case, causing the need for a patch in the binding and
> driver for each new platform added.
>
> This patch reworks the driver logic so that it will attempt to acquire
> all three clocks and fail based on the given compatible. This allow us
> to drop the clock requirement from "qcom,scm", in a way that will remain
> backwards compatible with existing DT files.
>
> Specific compatibles are added for apq8084, msm8916 and msm8974 to match
> the updated binding and although equivalent to qcom,scm both ipq4019 and
> msm8996 are kept as these have been used without fallback to qcom,scm.
>
> The result of this patch is that new platforms, that require no clocks,
> can be use the fallback compatible of "qcom,scm".
>
> Signed-off-by: Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Reviewed-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@xxxxxxxxxx>