Hello Geert,
Thank you for your feedback!
> From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: 23 January 2019 12:08
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] arm64: dts: renesas: r8a774a1: Add clkp2 clock to CAN nodes
>
> Hi Fabrizio,
>
> On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 1:01 PM Fabrizio Castro
> <fabrizio.castro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > From: Simon Horman <horms@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Sent: 23 January 2019 11:38
> > > Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] arm64: dts: renesas: r8a774a1: Add clkp2 clock to CAN nodes
> > >
> > > On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 10:51:23AM +0100, Simon Horman wrote:
> > > > On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 01:13:53PM +0100, Simon Horman wrote:
> > > > > On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 02:54:15PM +0000, Fabrizio Castro wrote:
> > > > > > According to the latest information, clkp2 is available on RZ/G2.
> > > > > > Modify CAN0 and CAN1 nodes accordingly.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Signed-off-by: Fabrizio Castro <fabrizio.castro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > > > Reviewed-by: Chris Paterson <Chris.Paterson2@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> > > > Thanks again, applied for v5.1.
> > >
> > > Sorry, I was a little hasty there.
> > >
> > > This patch depends on the presence of R8A774A1_CLK_CANFD which
> > > (rightly) is added in a different patch in this series which is to
> > > go upstream via a different tree.
> > >
> > > I have dropped this patch for now. I think there are two solution to this
> > > problem.
> > >
> > > 1. Provide a version of this patch which uses a numeric index instead of
> > > R8A774A1_CLK_CANFD. And then, once R8A774A1_CLK_CANFD is present in an
> > > RC release provide a patch to switch to using R8A774A1_CLK_CANFD.
> > >
> > > 2. Defer this patch until R8A774A1_CLK_CANFD is present in an RC release.
> >
> > Yeah, my personal preference is solution 2.
>
> Note that solution 2 will probably defer the DT patch to v5.2.
Yeah, my understanding is that even if we chose solution 1 we would still need to be
waiting for v5.2 for the patch to switch to using R8A774A1_CLK_CANFD to appear in
a rc, therefore I think solution 2 is fine.
Thanks,
Fab
>
> Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
>
> Geert
>
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