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From:   Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Date:   Tue, 26 Apr 2022 17:04:50 -0500
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 04/11] clocksource/drivers: Add HPE GXP timer
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc:     Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>,
        "Hawkins, Nick" <nick.hawkins@hpe.com>,
        "Verdun, Jean-Marie" <verdun@hpe.com>,
        Joel Stanley <joel@jms.id.au>,
        OpenBMC Maillist <openbmc@lists.ozlabs.org>,
        Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
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On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 4:55 PM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 11:38 PM Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org> wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 08:00:20AM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > > On Mon, Apr 25, 2022 at 10:38 PM Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> wrote:
>
> > > There are multiple ways of doing this that we already discussed
> > > in the thread. The easiest is probably to have a child node without
> > > custom registers in the DT and then use the DT helpers to
> > > populate the linux devices with the correct data.
> >
> > I think that's what the wdt binding is doing, but I don't like that.
> > Maybe it's not a child node, I can't tell.
> >
> > Bindings should not be decided on the *current* driver split on one
> > particular OS. This looks like 1 block, so 1 node.
>
> Fair enough.
>
> > If that doesn't work well or easy for Linux, then we should fix Linux.
>
> Doing a simple platform_device_create_pdata() should work fine here,
> the only problem that might exist is if the wdt driver needs access to
> DT properties, as we can't have both devices refer to the same of_node
> pointer,

Why not? There's even a struct device flag for that.

> which would cause them to be picked up by the timer driver
> again.

Huh?

That's not to say there might be some gotchas. The musb driver didn't
like sharing. But those are issues we should fix rather than
work-around in the binding.

Rob