[PATCH] arm: aspeed: Add clock-names property to timer node

[daniel.lezcano@linaro.org (Daniel Lezcano)]

On Wed, Jun 07, 2017 at 04:29:50PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 7, 2017 at 2:52 PM, Daniel Lezcano
> <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org> wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 06, 2017 at 11:41:11AM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> >> On Mon, Jun 5, 2017 at 10:59 AM, Joel Stanley <joel@jms.id.au> wrote:
> >> > On Mon, Jun 5, 2017 at 5:18 PM, Andrew Jeffery <andrew@aj.id.au> wrote:
> >> >> The merging of a number of clocksource drivers into fttmr010 means we
> >> >> require clock-names to be specified in the Aspeed timer node, else the
> >> >> clocksource fails to probe and boot hangs.
> >> >
> >> > Arnd,
> >> >
> >> > Linus' reworked timer driver will go into 4.13.
> >> >
> >> > Can we get this patch merged into 4.12 as a fix so we don't end up
> >> > with a broken boot at any stage?
> >>
> >> Hmm, can't we make the driver backward-compatible and have it fall
> >> back on the first clock if no clk named "PCLK" is found? Otherwise
> >> you still have an incompatible change in the DT binding and it will
> >> break if someone uses an older dtb with a newer kernel.
> >
> > I would like to avoid to hack the kernel code for backward DT compatible
> > things.
> 
> How about a fixup in the platform code to add the property then?

Dunno, do you have an example?

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