Re: [PATCH V4 01/11] dt-bindings: firmware: imx-scu: new binding to parse clocks from device tree

[Stephen Boyd <sboyd@kernel.org>]

Quoting Dong Aisheng (2019-08-20 04:13:15)
> 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>
> ---

Reviewed-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@kernel.org>


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