Re: [PATCH 00/16] clk: at91: Rework DT bindings

[Alexandre Belloni]

On 12/10/2018 11:28:06-0700, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> Quoting Stephen Boyd (2018-08-31 10:45:30)
> > Quoting Alexandre Belloni (2018-08-16 04:47:55)
> > > On 27/07/2018 10:03:22-0700, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> > > > Quoting Alexandre Belloni (2018-07-17 15:27:41)
> > > > > This is the promised rework of the at91 PMC clocks driver. It is mainly
> > > > > necessary to remove the DTC warnings but it also complies with the CCF
> > > > > rule that there should be one node per controller instead of one node
> > > > > per clock.
> > > > > 
> > > > > This only handles the PMC, I'm planning to also rework the SCKC bindings
> > > > > later (without breaking the DT ABI).
> > > > > 
> > > > > The series is based on top of clk-next plus at91-dt so I don't think it
> > > > > is convenient to have it this cycle. However, I would really like to
> > > > > ensure we agree on the new bindings this cycle before converting all the
> > > > > other platforms as this is a bit tedious.
> > > > > 
> > > > > The first two patches are actually fixes and may be considered for this
> > > > > cycle.
> > > > > 
> > > > > One nice note:
> > > > > at91-sama5d2_xplained.dtb goes from 29351 bytes to 22082 bytes
> > > > 
> > > > Patches look mostly good. Rob is happy with the bindings and so am I.
> > > > 
> > > > One general question is why the drivers can't be moved to real platform
> > > > drivers instead of using OF_CLK_DECLARE?
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > I tried, this makes the clocksource drivers fail with -EPROBE_DEFER and
> > > so the kernel just stops there.
> > > 
> > 
> > Ok. We have CLK_OF_DECLARE_DRIVER for that. Can you use that?
> > 
> 
> I assume this will be resent. I haven't seen anything yet though.
> 

It will, would you be willing to take it for this cycle if I manage to
send it on Monday? (it seems that we will have an -rc8).


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