Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 8 Jun 2017 15:26:40 +0200 | From | Daniel Lezcano <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] arm: aspeed: Add clock-names property to timer node |
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On Wed, Jun 07, 2017 at 04:29:50PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > 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?
Dunno, do you have an example?
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