[PATCH v2 1/2] clocksource: dw_apb_timer: Add common DTS glue for dw_apb_timer

Pavel Machek pavel at denx.de
Wed Jul 11 12:23:41 EDT 2012


On Wed 2012-07-11 17:03:58, Jamie Iles wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 10:20:26AM -0500, Dinh Nguyen wrote:
> > On Wed, 2012-07-11 at 00:15 +0100, Jamie Iles wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 04:39:40PM -0500, dinguyen at altera.com wrote:
> > > > --- a/arch/arm/mach-picoxcell/time.c
> > > > +++ b/drivers/clocksource/dw_apb_timer_of.c
> > > > @@ -1,11 +1,20 @@
> > > [...]
> > > > -static const struct of_device_id picoxcell_rtc_ids[] __initconst = {
> > > > -	{ .compatible = "picochip,pc3x2-rtc" },
> > > > +static const struct of_device_id sptimer_ids[] __initconst = {
> > > > +	{ .compatible = "snps,dw-apb-timer-sp" },
> > > >  	{ /* Sentinel */ },
> > > 
> > > Please keep picochip,pc3x2-rtc in the compatible list otherwise we won't 
> > > boot any more.
> > 
> > Should I add another .compatible entry here, or make the change in
> > picoxcell-pc3x2 and picoxcell-pc3x3 dtsi files?
> 
> I think that adding another compatible entry is the right thing to do 
> here - it avoids churn of the dtsi files and means that the compiled 
> device-tree blobs on deployed devices won't need updating.

Rob requested making "-freq" -> "-frequency" change, which will make
it incompatible. 

Shall we:

a) drop all the compatibility

b) make it parse both "-freq" and "-freqency" and both sets of ids

?

Thanks,
									Pavel
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