lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2017]   [Jun]   [7]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
Date
From
SubjectRe: [PATCH] arm: aspeed: Add clock-names property to timer node
On Tue, Jun 06, 2017 at 11:41:11AM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 5, 2017 at 10:59 AM, Joel Stanley <joel@jms.id.au> wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 5, 2017 at 5:18 PM, Andrew Jeffery <andrew@aj.id.au> wrote:
> >> The merging of a number of clocksource drivers into fttmr010 means we
> >> require clock-names to be specified in the Aspeed timer node, else the
> >> clocksource fails to probe and boot hangs.
> >
> > Arnd,
> >
> > Linus' reworked timer driver will go into 4.13.
> >
> > Can we get this patch merged into 4.12 as a fix so we don't end up
> > with a broken boot at any stage?
>
> Hmm, can't we make the driver backward-compatible and have it fall
> back on the first clock if no clk named "PCLK" is found? Otherwise
> you still have an incompatible change in the DT binding and it will
> break if someone uses an older dtb with a newer kernel.

I would like to avoid to hack the kernel code for backward DT compatible
things.



--

<http://www.linaro.org/> Linaro.org │ Open source software for ARM SoCs

Follow Linaro: <http://www.facebook.com/pages/Linaro> Facebook |
<http://twitter.com/#!/linaroorg> Twitter |
<http://www.linaro.org/linaro-blog/> Blog

\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2017-06-12 01:05    [W:0.134 / U:0.324 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site