Re: [PATCH 08/22] dt-bindings: display: rockchip: dw-hdmi: use "ref" as clock name

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On Tue, Dec 21, 2021 at 10:31:23AM -0400, Rob Herring wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 20, 2021 at 12:06:16PM +0100, Sascha Hauer wrote:
> > "vpll" is a misnomer. A clock input to a device should be named after
> > the usage in the device, not after the clock that drives it. On the
> > rk3568 the same clock is driven by the HPLL.
> > To fix that, this patch renames the vpll clock to ref clock.
> 
> The problem with this series is it breaks an old kernel with new dt. You 
> can partially mitigate that with stable kernel backport, but IMO keeping 
> the old name is not a burden to maintain.

As suggested I only removed vpll from the binding document, but not from
the code. The code still handles the old binding as well.

Sascha

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