Renesas clock clk-mstp updates for clock-indices

Ben Dooks ben.dooks at codethink.co.uk
Tue Apr 15 04:43:28 PDT 2014


On 15/04/14 10:26, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> Hi Ben,
>
> On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 1:46 PM, Ben Dooks <ben.dooks at codethink.co.uk> wrote:
>> Mike, following the commit to add the clock-indices field, the following
>> pair of commits updates the shmboile clk-mstp driver to uses these over
>> the local variant.
>>
>> Since this is involves two separte trees which are in development, the
>> decision is that we will fixup the renesas trees once they are merged
>> and the development cycle is complete. Once this is done, patch 2/2
>> can be reverted (if people care about three lines of differrence)
>
> As we now have "renesas,clock-indices" in v3.14, the question about backwards
> compatibility became moot.

Do you mean 'necessary'?

> Can you please combine your two patches
>
> [PATCH 1/2] clk: shmobile: clk-mstp: change to using clock-indices
> [PATCH 2/2] clk: shmobile: clk-mstp: add backwards comapt for indices field
>
> into a single patch, and submit to Mike?
>
> Once it's in Mike's clk-next, we can do the following to get everything in
> v3.15:
>    1. Simon cherry-picks Mike's commit into his fixes-for-v3.15 branch,
>    2. we fix arch/arm/boot/dts/r8a7790.dtsi and .../r8a7791.dtsi there,
>    3. fixes-for-v3.15 gets into mainline through arm-soc.

Wouldn't it be easier if we just got mike's ack and fixed it in one go?

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