netdev - Re: [PATCH v3 01/15] include: dt-bindings: add LAN969x clock bindings

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Message-ID: <d210552f-c8bf-4084-9317-b743075d9946@kernel.org>
Date: Thu, 25 Dec 2025 09:47:34 +0100
From: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@...nel.org>
To: Robert Marko <robert.marko@...tura.hr>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 01/15] include: dt-bindings: add LAN969x clock bindings

On 24/12/2025 15:01, Robert Marko wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 24, 2025 at 2:05 PM Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@...nel.org> wrote:
>>
>> On 24/12/2025 11:30, Robert Marko wrote:
>>> On Wed, Dec 24, 2025 at 11:21 AM Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@...nel.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Dec 23, 2025 at 09:16:12PM +0100, Robert Marko wrote:
>>>>> Add the required LAN969x clock bindings.
>>>>
>>>> I do not see clock bindings actually here. Where is the actual binding?
>>>> Commit msg does not help me at all to understand why you are doing this
>>>> without actual required bindings.
>>>
>>> I guess it is a bit confusing, there is no schema here, these are the
>>> clock indexes that
>>> reside in dt-bindings and are used by the SoC DTSI.
>>
>> I understand as not used by drivers? Then no ABI and there is no point
>> in putting them into bindings.
> 
> It is not included by the driver directly, but it requires these exact
> indexes to be passed
> so its effectively ABI.

How it requires the exact index? In what way? I do not see anything in
the gck driver using/relying on these values. Nothing. Please point me
to the line which directly uses these values.... or how many times I
will need to write this is not ABI?



Best regards,
Krzysztof