[PATCH RFC 4/5] drm/msm/hdmi: deprecate non standard clock-names

Thierry Reding thierry.reding at gmail.com
Mon Aug 10 05:49:48 PDT 2015


On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 12:59:49PM +0100, Srinivas Kandagatla wrote:
> This patch updates the bindings to discourage the usage of non standard
> clock names, this will help in projects focused on upstreaming.
> 
> These deprecated properties are still supported but will be remove over
> the time.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla at linaro.org>
> ---
>  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/drm/msm/hdmi.txt | 16 ++++++++--------
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/drm/msm/hdmi.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/drm/msm/hdmi.txt
> index 6dc202e..6fbfdd8 100644
> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/drm/msm/hdmi.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/drm/msm/hdmi.txt
> @@ -12,16 +12,16 @@ Required properties:
>  - clocks: device clocks
>  - clock-names: Corresponding name for each entry in the clocks property.
>   for "qcom,hdmi-tx-8960" compatible names should be
> -	"core_clk"
> -	"master_iface_clk"
> -	"slave_iface_clk"
> +	"core_clk" is deprecated, use "core" instead
> +	"master_iface_clk" is deprecated, use "master_iface" instead
> +	"slave_iface_clk" is deprecated, use "slave_iface" instead
>  
>   for "qcom,hdmi-tx-8084" and "qcom,hdmi-tx-8074" compatible names should be
> -	"extp_clk"
> -	"alt_iface_clk"
> -	"iface_clk"
> -	"core_clk"
> -	"mdp_core_clk"
> +	"extp_clk" is deprecated, use "extp" instead
> +	"alt_iface_clk" is deprecated, use "alt_iface" intstead
> +	"iface_clk" is deprecated, use "iface" instead
> +	"core_clk" is deprecated, use "core" instead
> +	"mdp_core_clk" is deprecated, use "mdp_core" instead

Shouldn't there be a driver counterpart of this to accept the new names?
Otherwise people could be switching the DTS to the new value, but the
driver won't find the clocks it's looking for.

Thierry
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