RE: [PATCH] dt-bindings: spi: xilinx: Add clocks & clock-names properties

["Mahapatra, Amit Kumar" <amit.kumar-mahapatra@xxxxxxx>]

Hello Conor,

> > >>>> Subject: Re: [PATCH] dt-bindings: spi: xilinx: Add clocks &
> > >>>> clock-names properties
> > >>>>
> > >>>> On Mon, Sep 23, 2024 at 06:02:42PM +0530, Amit Kumar Mahapatra wrote:
> > >>>>> Include the 'clocks' and 'clock-names' properties in the AXI
> > >>>>> Quad-SPI bindings. When the AXI4-Lite interface is enabled, the
> > >>>>> core operates in legacy mode, maintaining backward compatibility
> > >>>>> with version 1.00, and uses 's_axi_aclk' and 'ext_spi_clk'. For
> > >>>>> the AXI interface, it uses 's_axi4_aclk' and 'ext_spi_clk'.
> 
> > >>>>> +      properties:
> > >>>>> +        clock-names:
> > >>>>> +          items:
> > >>>>> +            - const: s_axi_aclk
> > >>>>> +            - const: ext_spi_clk
> > >>>>
> > >>>> These are all clocks, there should be no need to have "clk" in the names.
> > >>>
> > >>> These are the names exported by the IP and used by the DTG.
> > >>
> > >> So? This is a binding, not a verilog file.
> > >
> > > Axi Quad SPI is an FPGA-based IP, and the clock names are derived
> > > from the IP signal names as specified in the IP documentation [1].
> > > We chose these names to ensure alignment with the I/O signal names
> > > listed in Table 2-2 on page 19 of [1].
> > >
> > > [1]
> > > chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://www.amd.
> > > com/content/dam/xilinx/support/documents/ip_documentation/axi_quad_s
> > > pi/v3_2/pg153-axi-quad-spi.pdf
> >
> > So if hardware engineers call them "pink_pony_clk_aclk_really_clk" we
> > should follow...
> >
> >  - bus or axi
> >  - ext_spi or spi
> >
> > You have descriptions of each item to reference real signals. Conor's
> > comment is valid - do no make it verilog file.
> >
> > >
> > >>
> > >>>>> +
> > >>>>> +    else:
> > >>>>> +      properties:
> > >>>>> +        clock-names:
> > >>>>> +          items:
> > >>>>> +            - const: s_axi4_aclk
> > >>>>> +            - const: ext_spi_clk
> >
> > Nah, these are the same.
> 
> They may be different, depending on whether or not the driver has to handle "axi4-
> lite" versus "axi" differently. That said, I find the commit message kinda odd in that it
> states that axi4-lite goes with the s_axi_aclk clock and axi goes with s_axi4_aclk.

Apologies for the typo. When the AXI4 interface is enabled, it uses s_axi4_aclk, and 
when the AXI4-Lite interface is enabled, it uses s_axi_aclk.

In my next series I will update my commit message & change the clock-names 
's_axi4_aclk', 's_axi_aclk' & 'ext_spi_clk' to 'axi4', 'axi' & 'ref' respectively

Regards,
Amit

> Seems backwards..