Re: [PATCH v2 3/9] dt-bindings: clock: ipq5332: drop the few nss clocks definition

[Krzysztof Kozlowski]

On 22/11/2023 11:08, Kathiravan Thirumoorthy wrote:
> 
> 
> On 11/21/2023 8:36 PM, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
>> On 21/11/2023 15:30, Kathiravan Thirumoorthy wrote:
>>> In commit 0dd3f263c810 ("clk: qcom: ipq5332: enable few nssnoc clocks in
>>
>> Where is this commit coming from?
>>
>>> driver probe"), gcc_snoc_nssnoc_clk, gcc_snoc_nssnoc_1_clk,
>>> gcc_nssnoc_nsscc_clk are enabled in driver probe to keep it always-on.
>>
>> Implementation can change and for example bring back these clocks. Are
>> you going to change bindings? No, drop the patch.
>>
>> Bindings should be dropped only in a few rare cases like clocks not
>> available for OS or bugs.
> 
> Thanks Krzysztof. Will drop this patch in V3.
> 
> One more question to understand further. In IPQ SoCs there are bunch of 
> coresight / QDSS clocks but coresight framework doesn't handle all 
> clocks. Those clocks are enabled in bootloader stage itself. In such 
> case, should I drop the clocks from both binding and driver or only from 
> driver?

That's not really the reason to drop them at all. Neither from driver,
nor from bindings. You should not rely on bootloader handling your clocks

Best regards,
Krzysztof