[PATCH v1 08/25] dt-bindings: clock: mt8173: Add dummy clock ID

Krzysztof Kozlowski krzysztof.kozlowski at linaro.org
Fri Dec 23 00:52:52 PST 2022


On 22/12/2022 12:48, AngeloGioacchino Del Regno wrote:
> Some old MediaTek clock drivers are starting the clock count (so, the
> clock ID) from one instead of zero and this is logically incorrect,
> as we should start from 0.
> During a cleanup an issue emerged due to that and the cleanest and
> shortest way to keep devicetree backwards compatibility while still
> performing the well deserved cleanup is to add a dummy clock where
> needed, with ID 0.

Unfortunately I do not understand at all why adding dummy (fake) ID
cleans anything here. Unifying IDs to start from 0 is not an argument on
DT bindings header IDs.

Best regards,
Krzysztof




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