Hi Simon,
On Wed, Jun 1, 2016 at 2:25 AM, Simon Horman <horms@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 01, 2016 at 01:20:11AM +0300, Sergei Shtylyov wrote:
>> Renesas R8A7792 SoC is a member of the R-Car gen2 family and so has CPG...
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> I think the prefix of this patch should be "clk: shmobile: rcar-gen2: "
Almost, "clk: renesas: rcar-gen: " ;-)
> I apologise if I have missed a discussion of this topic or if my analysis
> is wrong for some reason but I am curious to know what the intended way
> is for the rcar-gen2 CPG driver to handle differences in the availability
> of clocks across different SoCs.
>
> My possibly naïve expectation is that the implementation would use compat
> strings. But as it stands it appears that all clocks supported by the
> driver are available for all SoCs. This does not seem to reflect the
> documentation (v2.00).
Differentiaton is not done using compat strings, but using clock-output-names.
The driver only instantiates the clocks that are listed there.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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