From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Return-Path: From: Kevin Hilman To: Yixun Lan Cc: Jerome Brunet , , Rob Herring , Neil Armstrong , Martin Blumenstingl , , , , , , , , , , , , Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] clk: meson-g12a: Add EE Clock controller driver References: <1531134767-29927-1-git-send-email-jian.hu@amlogic.com> <1531134767-29927-4-git-send-email-jian.hu@amlogic.com> <1531216472.2708.71.camel@baylibre.com> <7hfu0jmhbe.fsf@baylibre.com> <7e1cce0b-fc86-b900-2019-a85c5e5ba2ae@amlogic.com> Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2018 09:06:39 -0500 In-Reply-To: <7e1cce0b-fc86-b900-2019-a85c5e5ba2ae@amlogic.com> (Yixun Lan's message of "Tue, 17 Jul 2018 09:24:02 +0800") Message-ID: <7h601be2vk.fsf@baylibre.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain List-ID: Yixun Lan writes: [...] >> >> As Jerome said, I think consistency is an important goal, so leaving off >> the "meson-" for drivers/clk is fine with me. >> > ok > >> Also for consistency, for the rest of the drivers, keeping "meson-" is >> probably the right thing to do. >> > ok, for the above, you are talking about the already exist compatible > names? or the patches we will push in the future? I'm talking about future patches. >> However, patches would be welcome to add compatibles without the "meson" >> for the rest of the drivers & documentation as well, but please do not >> remove any compatibles. >> > I assume you are talking about the patches in the future we will push? > to drop the "meson". > > I'm confused here, as the above two paragraphs conflict with each other Yeah, what I wrote is confusing, sorry about that. What I mean is that new patches should stay consistent with compatibles in their existing drivers/subsystems. That means keeping the "meson-" prefix for everything except drivers/clk. In addition to that, patches would be welcome for *adding* compatibles without "meson" to all the current drivers. Kevin