[PATCH v4 1/7] dt-bindings: clock: exynos850: Add bindings for Exynos850 sysreg clocks

[Sam Protsenko]

On Tue, 21 Dec 2021 at 10:19, Krzysztof Kozlowski
<krzysztof.kozlowski at canonical.com> wrote:
>
> On 20/12/2021 15:55, Sam Protsenko wrote:
> > On Mon, 20 Dec 2021 at 11:31, Krzysztof Kozlowski
> > <krzysztof.kozlowski at canonical.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> On 19/12/2021 23:29, Sylwester Nawrocki wrote:
> >>> On 17.12.2021 17:15, Sam Protsenko wrote:
> >>>> System Register is used to configure system behavior, like USI protocol,
> >>>> etc. SYSREG clocks should be provided to corresponding syscon nodes, to
> >>>> make it possible to modify SYSREG registers.
> >>>>
> >>>> While at it, add also missing PMU and GPIO clocks, which looks necessary
> >>>> and might be needed for corresponding Exynos850 features soon.
> >>>>
> >>>> Reviewed-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski<krzysztof.kozlowski at canonical.com>
> >>>> Acked-by: Rob Herring<robh at kernel.org>
> >>>> Acked-by: Chanwoo Choi<cw00.choi at samsung.com>
> >>>> Signed-off-by: Sam Protsenko<semen.protsenko at linaro.org>
> >>>
> >>> Apologies for late reply, this patch is applied now.
> >>>
> >>
> >> Sam,
> >>
> >> The clock is used in the DTSI, so since this was applied, there are only
> >> two choices now:
> >> 1. wait for next cycle with DTSI and DTS,
> >> 2. Resubmit with replacing the newly added clocks in DTSI/DTS with
> >> numbers and a TODO note.
> >>
> >
> > But why? I thought because Sylwester applied my clock patches, those
> > will get into v5.17, and so DTSI/DTS might rely on those clocks? If I
> > get it wrong, please let me know why, and I'll go with item (2) you
> > suggested.
>
> If I apply the DTSI+DTS, all my builds will start failing. The
> linux-next (since Sylwester's tree is included) should build fine, but
> my tree won't be buildable anymore. Then arm-soc pulls my tree and gets
> said because it does not build. Later, Linus will be unhappy if he pulls
> arm-soc (thus mine) before clock tree.
>

I see. Thanks for the explanation!

> Other solution, instead of using raw numbers, is to copy-paste the clock
> macros you use directly in DTSI and do not include the clock header.
> This actually might be cleaner choice - changes will be limited to one
> place in DTSI.
>

Will do so in v5.

> Best regards,
> Krzysztof