Re: [PATCH v2 08/34] media: camss: Unify the clock names

[Rob Herring]

On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 2:53 AM Todor Tomov <todor.tomov@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi Rob,
>
> Thank you for review.
>
> On 11 July 2018 at 19:07, Rob Herring <robh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 05, 2018 at 04:32:39PM +0300, Todor Tomov wrote:
> >> Unify the clock names - use names closer to the clock
> >> definitions.
> >
> > Why? You can't just change names. You are breaking an ABI.
>
> Main reason is that this change allows more logical names and
> handling in the driver when support for 8996 is added.
> To clarify by example:
> - we used to have "camss_vfe_vfe" in 8916;
> - now we will have "vfe0" in 8916 and "vfe0" and "vfe1" in 8996.
>
> To achieve this I have changed the names to match more closely
> the definitions in the clock driver, which are based on the
> documentation. Yes, I should have done this the first time...
>
> I have used to update the dt and kernel code together. Yes, the
> change breaks the ABI but does this cause difficulties in practice?

That's up to the platform maintainers to decide. As a user of these
boards, yes, it would bother me. However, camera I don't care so much
about.

In any case, the commit message should make this crystal clear and
justify why breaking compatibility is okay.

Rob