linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v9 01/15] ARM: Add Krait L2 register accessor functions

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Date:   Fri, 01 Jun 2018 10:12:39 -0700
From:   Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...nel.org>
To:     Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@...aro.org>,
        Sricharan R <sricharan@...eaurora.org>
Cc:     robh@...nel.org, viresh.kumar@...aro.org, mark.rutland@....com,
        mturquette@...libre.com, sboyd@...eaurora.org,
        linux@...linux.org.uk, andy.gross@...aro.org,
        david.brown@...aro.org, rjw@...ysocki.net,
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        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-clk@...r.kernel.org,
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        linux-pm@...r.kernel.org, linux@....linux.org.uk
Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 01/15] ARM: Add Krait L2 register accessor functions

Quoting Sricharan R (2018-06-01 06:20:37)
> Hi Stephen,
> 
> On 5/31/2018 1:11 PM, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> > 
> > Ok. One general comment is that it would be nice if the bindings for all
> > the nodes that are introduced included 'clocks' properties and also
> > maybe 'clock-names' properties for the clocks that are consumed by each
> > node. Right now, we hide those details from DT and rely on the string
> > names to hook the clk tree up for us. That sort of prevents us from
> > moving away from string easily, so I would just throw the clocks into
> > the binding right now and always have them there just in case we want to
> > use the binding to figure out the hierarchy in the future.
> > 
> 
>  ok, understand that mostly. So will try to revamp those patches with
>  the 'clocks' property in the binding added, reading them in the driver
>  from DT.

Yeah. You don't even have to actually use the clocks property right now
from the drivers. Just add the properties in the binding.