Re: [PATCH 00/16] clk: at91: Rework DT bindings

From: Stephen Boyd
Date: Fri Aug 31 2018 - 13:45:33 EST


Quoting Alexandre Belloni (2018-08-16 04:47:55)
> On 27/07/2018 10:03:22-0700, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> > Quoting Alexandre Belloni (2018-07-17 15:27:41)
> > > This is the promised rework of the at91 PMC clocks driver. It is mainly
> > > necessary to remove the DTC warnings but it also complies with the CCF
> > > rule that there should be one node per controller instead of one node
> > > per clock.
> > >
> > > This only handles the PMC, I'm planning to also rework the SCKC bindings
> > > later (without breaking the DT ABI).
> > >
> > > The series is based on top of clk-next plus at91-dt so I don't think it
> > > is convenient to have it this cycle. However, I would really like to
> > > ensure we agree on the new bindings this cycle before converting all the
> > > other platforms as this is a bit tedious.
> > >
> > > The first two patches are actually fixes and may be considered for this
> > > cycle.
> > >
> > > One nice note:
> > > at91-sama5d2_xplained.dtb goes from 29351 bytes to 22082 bytes
> >
> > Patches look mostly good. Rob is happy with the bindings and so am I.
> >
> > One general question is why the drivers can't be moved to real platform
> > drivers instead of using OF_CLK_DECLARE?
> >
>
> I tried, this makes the clocksource drivers fail with -EPROBE_DEFER and
> so the kernel just stops there.
>

Ok. We have CLK_OF_DECLARE_DRIVER for that. Can you use that?