linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] dt-bindings: clock: fixed: Define a preferred node name

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Date: Fri, 03 May 2024 17:57:29 -0700
From: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...nel.org>
To: Conor Dooley <conor+dt@...nel.org>, Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski+dt@...aro.org>, Michael Turquette <mturquette@...libre.com>, Rob Herring (Arm) <robh@...nel.org>
Cc: linux-clk@...r.kernel.org, devicetree@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] dt-bindings: clock: fixed: Define a preferred node name

Quoting Rob Herring (Arm) (2024-04-30 11:04:14)
> Define "clock-<freq>" as the preferred node name for fixed-clock and
> fixed-factor-clock where <freq> is the output frequency of the clock.
> There isn't much of an existing pattern for names of these nodes. The
> most frequent patterns are a prefix or suffix of "clk", but there's a
> bunch that don't follow any sort of pattern. We could use
> "clock-controller-.*", but these nodes aren't really a controller in any
> way. So let's at least align with part of that and use 'clock-'.
> 
> For now this only serves as documentation as the schema still allows
> anything to avoid lots of additional warnings for something low priority
> to fix. Once a "no deprecated" mode is added to the tools, warnings can
> be enabled selectively.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rob Herring (Arm) <robh@...nel.org>
> ---

Applied to clk-next