[PATCH 7/9] ARM: sunxi: dt: Add PLL2 support

[Maxime Ripard]

On Sun, Aug 03, 2014 at 07:15:00PM -0300, Emilio López wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> El 03/08/14 a las 12:55, Chen-Yu Tsai escibió:
> >On Sun, Aug 3, 2014 at 8:50 PM, Maxime Ripard
> ><maxime.ripard at free-electrons.com> wrote:
> >>On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 05:46:09PM -0400, jonsmirl at gmail.com wrote:
> >>>Would it be better to name this "allwinner,sun4i-a10-pll2-clk" instead
> >>>of "allwinner,sun4i-a10-b-pll2-clk"? By encoding the b in it everyone
> >>>is going to wonder what to do on the 'c' revision which is the most
> >>>common revision.
> >>
> >>Not really, the way we works usually is that the compatible is the one
> >>from the first SoC that implemented that IP. If the rev C has the same
> >>IP than rev B, then we're using the rev B compatible.
> >>
> >>>
> >>>The revision based rename would then be from
> >>>"allwinner,sun4i-a10-pll2-clk" to "allwinner,sun4i-a10-a-pll2-clk".
> >>
> >>Though, I'd agree with you. We should have a single compatible in the
> >>DT, a generic one, that would trigger the auto-detection, and might
> >>change it to the rev A one, but the rev B doesn't make much sense.
> >
> >I agree. The rev B would make people reading the DT wonder what happened
> >to rev A.
> 
> Would you like to see "allwinner,sun4i-a10-pll2-clk" on the DT then?
> Should we document it as a magic property triggering an autodetect
> on the clock binding document?

Yes, and the rev-a one as really only to be used with a rev A SoC,
with a statement saying that we strongly discourage it, I guess.

Maxime

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