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Message-ID: <869ae494-d74e-03a0-3622-b3a2b0b10470@linaro.org>
Date:   Fri, 23 Dec 2022 09:52:52 +0100
From:   Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@...aro.org>
To:     AngeloGioacchino Del Regno 
        <angelogioacchino.delregno@...labora.com>, mturquette@...libre.com
Cc:     sboyd@...nel.org, matthias.bgg@...il.com, robh+dt@...nel.org,
        krzysztof.kozlowski+dt@...aro.org, wenst@...omium.org,
        johnson.wang@...iatek.com, miles.chen@...iatek.com,
        fparent@...libre.com, chun-jie.chen@...iatek.com,
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        ikjn@...omium.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 08/25] dt-bindings: clock: mt8173: Add dummy clock ID

On 22/12/2022 12:48, AngeloGioacchino Del Regno wrote:
> Some old MediaTek clock drivers are starting the clock count (so, the
> clock ID) from one instead of zero and this is logically incorrect,
> as we should start from 0.
> During a cleanup an issue emerged due to that and the cleanest and
> shortest way to keep devicetree backwards compatibility while still
> performing the well deserved cleanup is to add a dummy clock where
> needed, with ID 0.

Unfortunately I do not understand at all why adding dummy (fake) ID
cleans anything here. Unifying IDs to start from 0 is not an argument on
DT bindings header IDs.

Best regards,
Krzysztof

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