linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/2 v3] Add pl031 RTC support for Hi6220

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Date:	Tue, 5 Jul 2016 23:55:49 -0700
From:	John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>
To:	Olof Johansson <olof@...om.net>
Cc:	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"arm@...nel.org" <arm@...nel.org>,
	Michael Turquette <mturquette@...libre.com>,
	Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...eaurora.org>,
	Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
	Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@....com>, Wei Xu <xuwei5@...ilicon.com>,
	Guodong Xu <guodong.xu@...aro.org>,
	Zhangfei Gao <zhangfei.gao@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2 v3] Add pl031 RTC support for Hi6220

On Tue, Jul 5, 2016 at 10:22 PM, Olof Johansson <olof@...om.net> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 05:48:43PM -0700, John Stultz wrote:
>> This patchset enables the pl031 RTC on the Hi6220 SoC.
>>
>> I'd like to submit it to be merged.
>>
>> Wei has acked the second patch (modulo a whitespace fix which
>> I've included in this v3), so it seems like both could go
>> through the clk tree.
>>
>> But Wei also seemed open to pulling in a clk tree branch
>> as it goes through arm-soc.
>>
>> Michael/Stephen: If there's no other objections, could you
>> queue the first patch and make it avilable via the branch for
>> Wei, or just take both patches?
>
> I happen to dread these kind of patchsets these days. There's added
> dependencies across trees just because a defined name for the clock
> number is added to a header file.
>
> I much prefer to use numerical clocks for one release, and then once
> everything is in, switch over to the defines in the DTS.
>
> That way there are no dependencies, no need to setup a shared branch
> for a simple 3-line patch, etc.
>
> So, mind respinning the DTS piece?

Huh..

But trying to boot w/ the numerical clock in the DTS, without the clk
change results in lots of noise:
[  116.491458] of_clk_src_onecell_get: invalid clock index 37
[  116.511627] of_clk_src_onecell_get: invalid clock index 38

Is that acceptable?

thanks
-john