[PATCH RESEND net-next v2 1/8] dt-bindings: net: dwmac-sun8i: Clean up clock delay chain descriptions

Andrew Lunn andrew at lunn.ch
Mon May 14 05:03:30 PDT 2018


> > Currently no other board requires this, but this is already part of the
> > binding. The new stuff limits the range for a specific SoC, simply because
> > that is the range supported by the control register. Not implementing, i.e.
> > supporting the whole range from the property, which might get truncated,
> > doesn't make much sense to me.
> 
> With that driver we don't, but the previous design had the same
> feature and it was used on more boards. It was simply initialized
> statically in U-Boot, and not in Linux through the DT like it is done
> here.

If there are boards which do need it, then i'm fine with it. I would
also prefer that Linux does set it, and don't rely on U-boot.

   Andrew



More information about the linux-arm-kernel mailing list