[PATCH v2 1/2] dt-bindings: clock: mediatek: replace unusable clock
Alexandre Mergnat
amergnat at baylibre.com
Fri May 26 01:54:04 PDT 2023
On 25/05/2023 19:51, Conor Dooley wrote:
> On Thu, May 25, 2023 at 04:50:27PM +0200, Alexandre Mergnat wrote:
>> The “mcu_pm_bclk_ck_cg” clock is used by co-processors and should not be
>> added to the kernel driver, otherwise the CPU just halt and the board is
>> rebooted by the wathdog.
>>
>> Instead, add the "aes_top0_bclk_ck_cg" missing clock to prevent
>> re-shuffling index and then preserve the ABI.
>
> How does this preserve the ABI exactly? Please describe exactly what you
> mean by that.
I mean that reduce the impact of the change compared to the v1 where
I've changed the index of the following defines to be clean.
> Also, what about any other users of these definitions, outside of Linux?
The clock driver and bindings are only a couple of kernel versions old,
I'm pretty sure no one is using it. Also, if someone use
CLK_IFR_MCU_PM_BK define, I'm wondering how his CPU is working since
Mediatek told me that shouldn't be used, and after some try, I confirm.
I've a question: If something is wrong in the binding, you don't fix it
to avoid ABI change ?
TBH, I just try to clean the binding. I can fix the driver index issue
(patch 2/2) without fixing the binding if you prefer. But IMHO, keep an
unusable define isn't great...
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Regards,
Alexandre
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