Messages in this thread | | | From | Arnd Bergmann <> | Date | Wed, 7 Jun 2017 16:29:50 +0200 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] arm: aspeed: Add clock-names property to timer node |
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On Wed, Jun 7, 2017 at 2:52 PM, Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org> wrote: > 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.
How about a fixup in the platform code to add the property then?
Arnd
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