[PATCH 3/3] dt-bindings: mailbox: mediatek: Avoid clock-names on MT8188 GCE

AngeloGioacchino Del Regno angelogioacchino.delregno at collabora.com
Thu Jun 20 01:32:36 PDT 2024


Il 20/06/24 10:22, Conor Dooley ha scritto:
> On Thu, Jun 20, 2024 at 10:01:18AM +0200, AngeloGioacchino Del Regno wrote:
>> Il 19/06/24 19:49, Conor Dooley ha scritto:
>>> On Wed, Jun 19, 2024 at 10:53:22AM +0200, AngeloGioacchino Del Regno wrote:
>>>> Add mediatek,mt8188-gce to the list of compatibles for which the
>>>> clock-names property is not required.
>>>
>>> Because, I assume, it has some internal clock? Why do either of these
>>> things have no clock? Doesn't the internal logic require one?
>>>
>>
>> Because there's no gce0/gce1 clock, there's only an infracfg_AO clock that is
>> for one GCE instance, hence there's no need to require clock-names.
> 
> clock-names, d'oh. I misread that completely yesterday.
> 
>> I can't remove the clock-names requirement from the older compatibles though,
>> because the (sorry about this word) driver (eh..) gets the clock by name for
>> the single GCE SoCs...
>>
>> ...and here comes a self-NACK for this commit, I have to fix the driver and
>> then stop requiring clock-names on all compatibles, instead of having this
>> ugly nonsense.
> 
> Is it not worth keeping the clock names, even if ugly or w/e, because
> things have been done that way for a while?

It's worth allowing clock-names, but *requiring* that is unnecessary because
there is, and there will always be, only one clock...!

> Also, what does U-Boot do on these systems to get the clocks?
> 

U-Boot doesn't support GCE at all (no driver - at least upstream)...!

>> Self-note: gce0/gce1 clocks lookup was implemented in the driver but never
>> used and never added to the binding - luckily.
>>
>> Sorry Conor, I just acknowledged that there's a better way of doing that.
>>
>> Thank you for making me re-read this stuff, I'll send the proper changes
>> later today, driver change + binding change in a separate series.
>>
>> As for the other two commits in this series, completely unrelated to GCE,
>> those are still fine, and are fixing dtbs_check warnings.





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