Re: [PATCH 0/7] primecell: make correct clock parsing possible

Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-02-11T12:33:56Z

On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 11:37:05AM +0000, Mark Rutland wrote:
> These patches attempt to harmonize the bindings and the drivers with what's in
> use today, in a backwards compatible fashion, relieving us of our present
> Kafkaesque nightmare. Each peripheral's clock(s) are given explicit names which
> can be used, though code will fall back to the existing behaviour if said names
> are not provided. Additionally the currently unmet ordering requirement of
> apb_pclk is dropped, given all existing that code requires this to be named
> anyway.

The reason why these clocks ended up with NULL names was to force the
issue that clocks shall not be named solely by their connection IDs,
which was a major problem before DT. Now that we have DT, I'm happier
to reinstate the names, but I think we should just reinstate the names
we had previously. That should be in the git history.

The down-side is those names are all in capitals - but they were named
after the signal name(s) given in the Primecell documentation.

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