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SubjectRe: [PATCH v3 0/4] DT clock bindings
On 06/15/2012 02:39 AM, Shawn Guo wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 09:41:47AM -0500, Rob Herring wrote:
>> I'm posting this again to solicit further review. There has been some
>> discussion[1], but no definite path forward. This series is not changed
>> from the last post other than rebasing to v3.5-rc2.
>>
> Hi Rob,
>
> Per your comment[1], the patch below takes imx6q as example to define
> single CCM node with a whole bunch of outputs to support clk lookup
> with device tree. (Only uart and usdhc clocks are being put there for
> demonstration.) Though it seems working, going through the patch you
> will see a couple problems which may need to be solved to make the
> binding useful for cases like imx.
...
> * phandle argument is not easy for engineering
>
> As we will have a whole bunch of clock outputs listed in ccm node,
> which will be referenced by peripheral phandle in form of <&clks index>.
> When the list gets long, it becomes hard for people to find the correct
> index number for the clock referenced.

You can (well, probably /should/) list the clock IDs as well as names in
the binding documentation. Then, there's no guess-work or counting
involved. I did this in a very early Tegra clock binding proposal:

http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/141359/

Hopefully, dtc will grow named-constants or a pre-processor sometime and
help this too.


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