Re: [PATCH 06/12] dt-bindings: clk: sunxi-ng: add V853 CCU clock/reset

From: Krzysztof Kozlowski
Date: Mon Jan 13 2025 - 03:21:47 EST


On 13/01/2025 09:06, Chen-Yu Tsai wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 10, 2025 at 9:56 PM Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> On 10/01/2025 13:39, Andras Szemzo wrote:
>>> As the device tree needs the clock/reset indices, add them to DT binding
>>> headers.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Andras Szemzo <szemzo.andras@xxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> That's never a separate commit from the binding.
>>
>>
>> ...
>>
>>> --- /dev/null
>>> +++ b/include/dt-bindings/clock/sun8i-v853-r-ccu.h
>>> @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
>>> +/* SPDX-License-Identifier: (GPL-2.0+ OR MIT) */
>>> +/* Copyright(c) 2020 - 2023 Allwinner Technology Co.,Ltd. All rights reserved.
>>> + *
>>> + * Copyright (C) 2023 rengaomin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> + */
>>> +#ifndef _DT_BINDINGS_CLK_SUN8I_V85X_R_CCU_H_
>>> +#define _DT_BINDINGS_CLK_SUN8I_V85X_R_CCU_H_
>>> +
>>> +#define CLK_R_TWD 0
>>> +#define CLK_R_PPU 1
>>> +#define CLK_R_RTC 2
>>> +#define CLK_R_CPUCFG 3
>>> +
>>> +#define CLK_R_MAX_NO (CLK_R_CPUCFG + 1)
>>
>> Nope, drop. Not a binding.
>>
>>> +
>>> +#endif
>>> diff --git a/include/dt-bindings/reset/sun8i-v853-ccu.h b/include/dt-bindings/reset/sun8i-v853-ccu.h
>>> new file mode 100644
>>> index 000000000000..89d94fcbdb55
>>> --- /dev/null
>>> +++ b/include/dt-bindings/reset/sun8i-v853-ccu.h
>>> @@ -0,0 +1,62 @@
>>> +/* SPDX-License-Identifier: (GPL-2.0+ OR MIT) */
>>
>> Odd license. Did you copy the file with such license from the downstream?
>
> AFAIK all the existing sunxi clock / reset binding header files are
> dual licensed. OOTH all the YAML files are GPL 2.0 only.
>
> IIRC we started out GPL 2.0 only, but then figured that the header files
> couldn't be shared with non-GPL projects, so we changed those to dual
> license.
>
> Hope that explains the current situation. Relicensing the whole lot
> to just MIT or BSD is probably doable.
That's not what the comment is about. Dual license, as expressed by
submitting bindings/patches and enforced by checkpatch are expected. But
not GPLv3, GPLv4 and GPLv10.

Best regards,
Krzysztof