[PATCH v2 1/2] drm/msm/dsi: Use "ref" fw clock instead of global name for VCO parent

Stephen Boyd sboyd at kernel.org
Wed Sep 1 05:35:12 UTC 2021


Quoting Marijn Suijten (2021-08-30 16:10:26)
> 
> I'm 95% sure this shouldn't cause any problems given current DTs and
> their history, but that's probably not enough.  This might also impact
> DTs that have not yet been upstreamed, but afaik the general stance is
> to not care and actually serve as a fair hint/warning before new DTs
> make it to the list.
> 
> If there is a protocol in place to deprecate, warn, and eventually
> remove this reliance on global clock names I'm more than happy to add
> .name as a temporary fallback, even if likely unneeded.  Otherwise we
> might never get rid of it.

I'm not aware of any protocol to deprecate, warn, and remove the
fallback name. It's a fallback because it can't ever really be removed.

Anyway, if you're not willing to add the .name then that's fine. We can
deal with the problem easily by adding a .name in the future if someone
complains that things aren't working. Sound like a plan? If so, it's
probably good to add some sort of note in the commit text so that when
the bisector lands on this patch they can realize that this
intentionally broke them.


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