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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/6] dt-bindings: clk: mstar msc313 mpll binding description
From:   Stephen Boyd <sboyd@kernel.org>
Cc:     DTML <devicetree@vger.kernel.org>, linux-clk@vger.kernel.org,
        linux-arm-kernel <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
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        Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
To:     Daniel Palmer <daniel@0x0f.com>
Date:   Sun, 20 Dec 2020 10:44:09 -0800
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Quoting Daniel Palmer (2020-12-19 22:35:41)
> Hi Stephen,
>=20
> On Sun, 20 Dec 2020 at 12:39, Stephen Boyd <sboyd@kernel.org> wrote:
> > > +  clock-output-names:
> > > +    minItems: 8
> > > +    maxItems: 8
> > > +    description: |
> > > +      This should provide a name for the internal PLL clock and then
> > > +      a name for each of the divided outputs.
> >
> > Is this necessary?
>=20
> I found without the names specified in the dt probing of muxes that
> depend on the outputs but appear earlier didn't work.
> Also this same PLL layout seems to be used in some other places so
> eventually I was thinking this driver would get used for those PLLs
> with different output names.

Still seems like it could be auto-generated based on dev_name() +
number. Now that we have a way to specify clk parents via the clocks
property in DT (without any clock-names required) we should be able to
avoid needing clock-output-names in general.