[PATCH 2/4] dt-bindings: display: msm: dp-controller: document clock parents better

Krzysztof Kozlowski krzk at kernel.org
Wed Dec 4 08:02:18 UTC 2024


On Tue, Dec 03, 2024 at 03:41:48PM +0200, Dmitry Baryshkov wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 03, 2024 at 09:01:31AM +0100, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> > On 03/12/2024 04:31, Abhinav Kumar wrote:
> > > Document the assigned-clock-parents better for the DP controller node
> > > to indicate its functionality better.
> > 
> > 
> > You change the clocks entirely, not "document". I would say that's an
> > ABI break if it really is a Linux requirement. You could avoid any
> > problems by just dropping the property from binding.
> 
> But if you take a look at the existing usage, the proposed change
> matches the behaviour. So, I'd say, it's really a change that makes
> documentation follow the actual hardware.

First, this should be in the commit msg, instead of "document better to
indicate functionality better".

Second, what is the point of documenting it in the first place if you
can change it and changing has no impact? So maybe just drop?

Best regards,
Krzysztof



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