[PATCH v3 01/15] include: dt-bindings: add LAN969x clock bindings

[Alexandre Belloni]

On 25/12/2025 17:25:07+0100, Alexandre Belloni wrote:
> On 25/12/2025 09:47:34+0100, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> > On 24/12/2025 15:01, Robert Marko wrote:
> > > On Wed, Dec 24, 2025 at 2:05 PM Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk at kernel.org> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> On 24/12/2025 11:30, Robert Marko wrote:
> > >>> On Wed, Dec 24, 2025 at 11:21 AM Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk at kernel.org> wrote:
> > >>>>
> > >>>> On Tue, Dec 23, 2025 at 09:16:12PM +0100, Robert Marko wrote:
> > >>>>> Add the required LAN969x clock bindings.
> > >>>>
> > >>>> I do not see clock bindings actually here. Where is the actual binding?
> > >>>> Commit msg does not help me at all to understand why you are doing this
> > >>>> without actual required bindings.
> > >>>
> > >>> I guess it is a bit confusing, there is no schema here, these are the
> > >>> clock indexes that
> > >>> reside in dt-bindings and are used by the SoC DTSI.
> > >>
> > >> I understand as not used by drivers? Then no ABI and there is no point
> > >> in putting them into bindings.
> > > 
> > > It is not included by the driver directly, but it requires these exact
> > > indexes to be passed
> > > so its effectively ABI.
> > 
> > How it requires the exact index? In what way? I do not see anything in
> > the gck driver using/relying on these values. Nothing. Please point me
> > to the line which directly uses these values.... or how many times I
> > will need to write this is not ABI?
> > 
> 
> The index here is the exact id that needs to be set in the PMC_PCR
> register and so it is dictated by the hardware.

This is the line you are looking for:
https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v6.18.2/source/drivers/clk/at91/clk-generated.c#L44

	regmap_write(gck->regmap, gck->layout->offset,
		     (gck->id & gck->layout->pid_mask));

> 
> 
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Alexandre Belloni, co-owner and COO, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
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