Re: [PATCH v7 1/6] i2c: xiic: skip input clock setup on non-OF systems

From: Andrew Lunn

Date: Thu Jan 29 2026 - 17:44:16 EST


On Thu, Jan 29, 2026 at 09:43:13PM +0000, Abdurrahman Hussain via B4 Relay wrote:
> From: Abdurrahman Hussain <abdurrahman@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> The xiic driver supports operation without explicit clock configuration
> when clocks cannot be specified via firmware, such as on ACPI-based
> systems.

Are you saying it is technically impossible to specify a clock in
ACPI?

Maybe a more accurate would be:

The xiic driver supports operation without explicit clock
configuration when the clocks are not specified via firmware, such as
when the ACPI tables are missing the description of the clocks.

Andrew