Messages in this thread | | | From | Scott Wood <> | Date | Fri, 21 Dec 2018 22:35:45 -0600 | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/2 v3] powerpc/fsl: Use new clockgen binding |
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On Wed, 2018-12-12 at 01:57 +0000, Andy Tang wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Scott Wood <oss@buserror.net> > > Sent: 2018年11月26日 9:19 > > To: Andy Tang <andy.tang@nxp.com> > > Cc: mturquette@baylibre.com; sboyd@kernel.org; robh+dt@kernel.org; > > mark.rutland@arm.com; benh@kernel.crashing.org; paulus@samba.org; > > mpe@ellerman.id.au; linux-clk@vger.kernel.org; > > devicetree@vger.kernel.org; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; > > linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org > > Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2 v3] powerpc/fsl: Use new clockgen binding > > > > On Wed, 2018-10-31 at 14:57 +0800, Yuantian Tang wrote: > > > From: Scott Wood <oss@buserror.net> > > > > > > The driver retains compatibility with old device trees, but we don't > > > want the old nodes lying around to be copied, or used as a reference > > > (some of the mux options are incorrect), or even just being clutter. > > > > > > > > > +sysclk: sysclk { > > > + compatible = "fixed-clock"; > > > + #clock-cells = <0>; > > > + clock-frequency = <100000000>; > > > + clock-output-names = "sysclk"; > > > +}; > > > + > > > clockgen: global-utilities@e1000 { > > > > The U-Boot fixup won't work with this. U-Boot patches the frequency > > directly into the clockgen node (BTW, this is another reason to preserve > > the generic > > 1.0/2.0 compatible string). The new binding does not require an input > > clock node when it is provided as clock-frequency directly in the clockgen > > node -- and the sysclk node was not in my original patch (nor did you note > > that you made changes from that original). Why did you add it? > > > > I would just remove it when applying, but I'm concerned that this > > indicates > > a lack of testing (and I don't have the hardware access to test it myself, > > except on t4240) -- unless the 100 MHz sysclk just happened to be correct > > on the machines you tested (which would also be a test coverage > > problem)? > > [Andy] You are right. Sysclk may not be useful anymore. > Uboot will fixup the clockgen node correctly. Please apply this patch > without sysclk. We will > test it and catch the error if the clock is not fixed correctly.
OK.
> BTW, which git tree are you going to apply it on? This one? > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/scottwood/linux.git/log/?h=next
That will be the branch I use to send the patches to Michael, but it's not a branch that is kept constantly updated. If you're asking what tree to base future patches on, that would generally be the next branch of powerpc/linux.git (unless you depend on something else that isn't there yet).
-Scott
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