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Subject: Re: [RFC v2 1/2] clk: hisilicon: add CRG driver Hi3521a SoC
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From:   Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@linaro.org>
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On 03/06/2022 13:22, Marty E. Plummer wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 02, 2022 at 08:37:43AM +0200, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
>> On 01/06/2022 20:24, Marty E. Plummer wrote:
>>
>>>>> Either or. Whatever makes the workload easier is what I'm looking for.
>>>>
>>>> Sorry, you need to be more specific. Apply is not a job for you, for the
>>>> patch submitter.
>>>>
>>>> Then you miss here important piece - which is the first patch. DTS goes
>>>> always via separate branch (or even tree) from driver changes. That's
>>>> why bindings are always separate first patches.
>>>>
>>> So, add a 4: arch/arm/boot/dts/soc.dtsi and 5: arch/arm/boot/dts/board.dts
>>> to the above list, or should those be the same patch as well?
>>
>> For me does not matter, sub architecture maintainer might have preference.
>>
> Fair enough. That being said, for the dt-bindings patch, is it
> permissible to include #define CLOCK_FOO 1337 and so on for clocks which
> haven't been wired up in the driver yet? As in, you know they're there,
> and are important enough to model, but you haven't gotten to that point
> yet?

What would be the benefit to include them now? I imagine that if you
plan to add such clocks to the driver in next week or something, and you
need to use them in DTS, then it's fine. If that's not the case,
probably there is little sense in defining them upfront...


Best regards,
Krzysztof