Messages in this thread | | | From | Rob Herring <> | Date | Thu, 17 Mar 2016 15:14:30 -0500 | Subject | Re: [PATCH 14/15] dt-bindings: arm-gic: Drop 'clock-names' from binding document |
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On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 9:19 AM, Jon Hunter <jonathanh@nvidia.com> wrote: > Commit afbbd2338176 ("irqchip/gic: Document optional Clock and Power > Domain properties") documented optional clock and power-dmoain properties > for the ARM GIC. Currently, there are no users of these and for the > Tegra210 Audio GIC (based upon the GIC-400) there are two clocks, a > functional clock and interface clock, that need to be enabled. > > To allow flexibility, drop the 'clock-names' from the GIC binding and > just provide a list of clocks which the driver can parse. It is assumed > that any clocks that are listed, need to be enabled in order to access > the GIC. > > Signed-off-by: Jon Hunter <jonathanh@nvidia.com> > > --- > > Please note that I am not sure if this will be popular, but I am trying > to come up with a generic way to handle multiple clocks that may be > required for accessing a GIC.
It's not. :)
We need to specify the number and order of clocks by compatible string at a minimum. Sadly, ARM's GICs are well documented and include clock names, so you can't just make up genericish names either which is probably often the case.
Rob
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