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    SubjectRe: [PATCH 14/15] dt-bindings: arm-gic: Drop 'clock-names' from binding document
    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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