Re: [PATCH 6/6] riscv: dts: microchip: add the mpfs' fabric clock control

[Krzysztof Kozlowski]

On 19/08/2022 17:32, Conor.Dooley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> The clock names should not really matter, so if you have conflict of
>> names among multiple controllers, I think driver should embed unit
>> address in the name (as fallback of clock-output-name) and the binding
>> should not enforce specific pattern.
> 
> Not sure if you just passed over it, but I agree:
>>> Truncated base address I suppose would be a meaningful thing
>>> to fall back to afterwards.

Yeah, indeed, you mentioned it.

> 
> But if the names aren't an ABI, then either there's not much point in
> having the regex at all for clock-output-names or failing the check for
> it does not matter. I'll have a think over the weekend about what
> exactly to do, but I think the driver side of this is clear to me now &
> what not to do in the binding is too.

Yes.

> 
>> I can easily imagine a real hardware board design with
>> "sexy_duck_ccc_pll1_out3" clock names. :)
> 
> If Alestorm made a board with our FPGA, I could see that..
> I'd buy the t-shirt too!
> 


Best regards,
Krzysztof