Re: [PATCH 3/4] drm/tegra: Add VIC support

[Arto Merilainen <amerilainen-DDmLM1+adcrQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>]

Hi Thierry,

On 05/22/2015 01:02 PM, Thierry Reding wrote:
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> On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 06:44:08PM +0300, Mikko Perttunen wrote:
>> On 05/21/2015 06:10 PM, Arto Merilainen wrote:
>>> ...
>>>>> +
>>>>> +    vic->rst = devm_reset_control_get(dev, "vic03");
>>>>
>>>> I might prefer just "vic" as the clock/reset name. The name is often
>>>> used as a sort of "role" for the clock/reset for the device, not
>>>> necessarily the raw name of the "correct" clock/reset.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I considered that - but I then noticed that
>>> drivers/clk/tegra/clk-tegra124.c was already using vic03 variant. I can
>>> write a patch for changing that too.
>>
>> Well, the two can be different; the clock-name in device tree kind of means
>> "string that i use to refer to a clock that powers the VIC unit". It's not
>> really a big deal though, both ways are used in DT bindings.
>
> I'll insist on calling this vic in the clock-names property. The 03 is
> as far as I can tell an encoding of the version number, so if you want
> to call this vic04 in some future version we'll have to needlessly
> patch the driver.

I agree, this is better without 03 postfix will fix this in the next 
version.

- Arto