linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/6] ARM: davinci: common clock prep work

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Date:   Tue, 23 Jan 2018 17:40:14 -0600
From:   David Lechner <david@...hnology.com>
To:     Sekhar Nori <nsekhar@...com>, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Cc:     Kevin Hilman <khilman@...nel.org>,
        Lee Jones <lee.jones@...aro.org>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Kishon Vijay Abraham I <kishon@...com>,
        Adam Ford <aford173@...il.com>,
        Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@...libre.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] ARM: davinci: common clock prep work

On 01/22/2018 05:13 AM, Sekhar Nori wrote:
> On Saturday 20 January 2018 08:50 AM, David Lechner wrote:
>> This series contains some changes needed for the conversion of arch/arm/mach-
>> davinci to the common clock framework.
>>
>> Most of the boards in mach-davinci do not have device tree support. However,
>> CFGCHIP, which is a syscon regmap, is needed during clock init in early boot.
>> Using a platform device for the syscon at this point is not an option. So,
>> this series introduces a new way to register a syscon regmap on non-DT systems.
>>
>> The DA8XX USB PHY driver is a consumer of the CFGCHIP syscon regmap, so some
>> changes are needed in that driver as well since we are removing the syscon
>> platform devices. The patch "phy: da8xx-usb: rename clock con_ids" doesn't
>> have anything to do with syscon, but I included in this series because we are
>> touching PHY code here anyway and it is also a dependency for the upcoming
>> common clock framework conversion changes.
>>
>> Maintainers, please coordinate with Sekhar before committing. We will probably
>> want everything to go through the linux-davinci tree if possible.
> 
> You should wait for some more feedback before resending anything, but I
> think it will be easier to reivew/accept this if the changes are just
> related to removal of "syscon" platform device from devices-da8xx.c.
> 
> It _seems_ like this series does more than just that, and I hope it can
> be pared down.
> 

This series has been split out into "ARM: da8xx: use platform data for CFGCHIP
syscon regmap" [1] and "phy: da8xx-usb: rename clock con_ids" [2].

[1]: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10181147/
[2]: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10180897/