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Date:   Tue, 17 May 2022 13:05:07 +0300
From:   Serge Semin <fancer.lancer@gmail.com>
To:     Stephen Boyd <sboyd@kernel.org>
Cc:     Manivannan Sadhasivam <manivannan.sadhasivam@linaro.org>,
        Serge Semin <Sergey.Semin@baikalelectronics.ru>,
        Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/4] clk: Baikal-T1 DDR/PCIe resets and some xGMAC
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On Tue, May 17, 2022 at 12:40:18AM -0700, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> Quoting Serge Semin (2022-05-12 14:14:31)
> > On Thu, May 12, 2022 at 10:41:50PM +0530, Manivannan Sadhasivam wrote:
> > > On Thu, May 12, 2022 at 04:27:05PM +0100, Lorenzo Pieralisi wrote:
> > > > So in short, this series has to go through the usual clock tree review
> > > > process.
> > > > 
> > 
> > I do know the normal procedure. But if patches concern different
> > subsystems but for some reason inter-depended somehow it's ok to merge
> > them in via a single repo. In my case the platform clock driver has
> > been updated in a way so to support the reset-controls utilized in the
> > PCIe driver altered in another patchset. So I didn't want to leave the
> > kernel not working in the framework of my platform on any git hash
> > state. That's why I asked to merge the patchsets in via the same repo.
> > The kernel would be still buildable though.
> > 
> 

> Is it going to be broken if I merge the clk patches through clk tree?

No. It won't be broken.

> Has it ever worked?

It has and is working well except some minor fixes provided in this
petchset:
[PATCH v3 1/4] clk: baikal-t1: Fix invalid xGMAC PTP clock divider
[PATCH v3 2/4] clk: baikal-t1: Define shared xGMAC ref/ptp clocks parent

> Does the kernel still boot, just PCIe fails if the
> patches are applied?

Yes, the kernel will be bootable. There won't be any problem if the patches
in this series are applied because it is self-consistent. As I
said in the cover letter there is an implicit dependency of another series
"[PATCH v2 00/17] PCI: dwc: Add dma-ranges/YAML-schema/Baikal-T1 support"
(https://lore.kernel.org/linux-pci/20220503214638.1895-1-Sergey.Semin@baikalelectronics.ru/T/#me3c5c248adad9760702b545bd4bacd89d5f8a2bd)
from this one. In particular the functionality implemented in the
patch
"[PATCH v2 17/17] PCI: dwc: Add Baikal-T1 PCIe controller support"
(https://lore.kernel.org/linux-pci/20220503214638.1895-1-Sergey.Semin@baikalelectronics.ru/T/#m219e11c38c4ab8db0c2520c4050366d641598600)
depends on the patches 3 and 4 of this patchset. But the
dependency is implicit hidden under the DT clock/reset bindings layer.
The Baikal-T1 PCIe platform driver will just fail to probe the host
controller device if this series isn't applied. So the clock/reset
patchset can be freely merged in via the clk tree especially seeing
the PCIe Host/EP subsystem maintainer is going to be AFK from
Wednesday and my series will sadly but likely hang up in limbo for a
while.

-Sergey