Re: [PATCH v3 01/11] dt-bindings: firmware: imx-scu: new binding to parse clocks from device tree

From: Oliver Graute <oliver.graute@kococonnector.com>
To: Dong Aisheng <aisheng.dong@nxp.com>
Cc: "devicetree@vger.kernel.org" <devicetree@vger.kernel.org>,
	"sboyd@kernel.org" <sboyd@kernel.org>,
	"mturquette@baylibre.com" <mturquette@baylibre.com>,
	Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>,
	"linux-imx@nxp.com" <linux-imx@nxp.com>,
	"kernel@pengutronix.de" <kernel@pengutronix.de>,
	"fabio.estevam@nxp.com" <fabio.estevam@nxp.com>,
	"shawnguo@kernel.org" <shawnguo@kernel.org>,
	"linux-clk@vger.kernel.org" <linux-clk@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org"
	<linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 01/11] dt-bindings: firmware: imx-scu: new binding to parse clocks from device tree
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2019 10:01:45 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190829094624.GC18928@optiplex> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1563289265-10977-2-git-send-email-aisheng.dong@nxp.com>

On 16/07/19, Dong Aisheng wrote:
> There's a few limitations on the original one cell clock binding
> (#clock-cells = <1>) that we have to define some SW clock IDs for device
> tree to reference. This may cause troubles if we want to use common
> clock IDs for multi platforms support when the clock of those platforms
> are mostly the same.
> e.g. Current clock IDs name are defined with SS prefix.
> 
> However the device may reside in different SS across CPUs, that means the
> SS prefix may not valid anymore for a new SoC. Furthermore, the device
> availability of those clocks may also vary a bit.
> 
> For such situation, we want to eliminate the using of SW Clock IDs and
> change to use a more close to HW one instead.
> For SCU clocks usage, only two params required: Resource id + Clock Type.
> Both parameters are platform independent. So we could use two cells binding
> to pass those parameters,
> 
> Cc: Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>
> Cc: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@kernel.org>
> Cc: Shawn Guo <shawnguo@kernel.org>
> Cc: Sascha Hauer <kernel@pengutronix.de>
> Cc: Michael Turquette <mturquette@baylibre.com>
> Cc: devicetree@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Dong Aisheng <aisheng.dong@nxp.com>

This Patch series (v3) is running fine for some weeks on my iMX8QM Board.

So feel free to use my Tag:

Tested-by: Oliver Graute <oliver.graute@kococonnector.com>