[PATCH v2 2/5] dt-bindings: media: Add bindings for ARM mali-c55

Rob Herring robh at kernel.org
Thu Feb 22 10:07:47 PST 2024


On Fri, Feb 16, 2024 at 07:07:58PM +0000, Conor Dooley wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 16, 2024 at 02:45:31PM +0000, Dan Scally wrote:
> 
> > > > > > > > +      - description: ISP AXI clock
> > > > > > > > +      - description: ISP AHB-lite clock
> > > > > > > These two other clocks look good to me.
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > > +
> > > > > > > > +  clock-names:
> > > > > > > > +    items:
> > > > > > > > +      - const: vclk
> > > > > > > > +      - const: aclk
> > > > > > > > +      - const: hclk
> > > > > > Why not "video" "axi" "ahb-lite"? There's 3 useful letters between the
> > > > > > tree clock names you've provided - they're all clocks, so having "clk"
> > > > > > in them is just noise :)
> > > > > As far as I understand, the names proposed by Dan come directly from the
> > > > > IP core documentation.
> > > > This is the case, but I do take Conor's point that more descriptive names might be nicer - if I'm
> > > > honest I just didn't think about it particularly given "Xclk" is such a common name for them
> > > > already, but having been poked into thinking about it I do agree.
> > > Isn't the usual practice in DT bindings is to name GPIOs, clocks and reset
> > > signals based on the hardware documentation ?
> > 
> > 
> > Ah - I don't know honestly. If that's so then yeah - these are the names the documentation prescribes.
> 
> If a direct doc match is what you're going for, then sure, keep it.

pclk, aclk, and hclk are generally the names used for APB, AXI, and AHB 
bus clocks, so I'd stick with them. Though we also have cases of the bus 
names used... 

Rob



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