Re: [PATCH 1/9] ARM: STi: DT: STiH416: 416 DT Entry for clockgen A0/1/10/11/12

From: Lee Jones
Date: Mon May 19 2014 - 05:30:51 EST


On Wed, 14 May 2014, Maxime Coquelin wrote:

> Hi Lee,
>
> On 05/08/2014 10:03 AM, Lee Jones wrote:
> >>>>Patch adds DT entries for clockgen A0/1/10/11/12
> >>>>
> >>>>Signed-off-by: Pankaj Dev <pankaj.dev@xxxxxx>
> >>>>Signed-off-by: Gabriel Fernandez <gabriel.fernandez@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >>>>---
> >>>> arch/arm/boot/dts/stih416-clks.h | 15 ++
> >>>
> >>>This should live in include/dt-bindings/clk
> >>>
> >>include/dt-bindings/clk or include/dt-bindings/clock ?
> >
> >I have no idea what the difference between the two are. I guess you
> >are in a better position to answer that. My point was just that the
> >includes should be in the include directory, rather than being held
> >locally in the 'dts' directory.
>
> Even if these .h files are only used by the DTS files??
>
> There are some .h files for pincfg related stuff, shouldn't we do
> the same in this case?

I believe so. There are a few include files which are only referenced
from DTS(I) files. I would be cautious about needlessly overloading
arch/arm/boot/dts with files which do not need to be there. This is
my personal opinion though, perhaps the DT guys have other ideas.

> >>>> arch/arm/boot/dts/stih416-clock.dtsi | 477 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >>>> arch/arm/boot/dts/stih416.dtsi | 10 +-
> >>>> 3 files changed, 497 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> >>>> create mode 100644 arch/arm/boot/dts/stih416-clks.h
> >

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