[PATCH v5 4/4] net: stmmac: Update the name of property 'clk_csr'

AngeloGioacchino Del Regno angelogioacchino.delregno at collabora.com
Tue Sep 27 03:44:47 PDT 2022


Il 27/09/22 10:44, Jianguo Zhang ha scritto:
> Dear Krzysztof,
> 	Thanks for your comment.
> 
> On Fri, 2022-09-23 at 20:15 +0200, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
>> On 23/09/2022 20:14, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
>>>> This is going to break MT2712e on old devicetrees.
>>>>
>>>> The right way of doing that is to check the return value of
>>>> of_property_read_u32()
>>>> for "snps,clk-csr": if the property is not found, fall back to
>>>> the old "clk_csr".
>>>
>>> I must admit - I don't care. That's the effect when submitter
>>> bypasses
>>> DT bindings review (81311c03ab4d ("net: ethernet: stmmac: add
>>> management
>>> of clk_csr property")).
>>>
>>> If anyone wants ABI, please document the properties.
>>>
>>> If out-of-tree users complain, please upstream your DTS or do not
>>> use
>>> undocumented features...
>>>
>>
>> OTOH, as Angelo pointed out, handling old and new properties is quite
>> easy to achieve, so... :)
>>
> So, the conclusion is as following:
> 
> 1. add new property 'snps,clk-csr' and document it in binding file.
> 2. parse new property 'snps,clk-csr' firstly, if failed, fall back to
> old property 'clk_csr' in driver.
> 
> Is my understanding correct?

Yes, please.

I think that bindings should also get a 'clk_csr' with deprecated: true,
but that's Krzysztof's call.

Regards,
Angelo

> 
>> Best regards,
>> Krzysztof
>>
> BRS
> Jianguo
> 





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