From: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] Renesas R8A77970 CPG/MSSR clock support
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2017 09:28:29 +0200
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On Mon, Sep 11, 2017 at 04:38:43PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> Hi Sergei,
> 
> On Fri, Sep 8, 2017 at 11:34 PM, Sergei Shtylyov
> <sergei.shtylyov@cogentembedded.com> wrote:
> >    Here's the set of 2 patches against the 'clk-next' branch of CLK group's
> > 'linux.git' repo.
> 
> Thank you, looks good!
> 
> > As the DT patches in the R8A77970/Eagle board support series
> > depend on the patch #1 of this series, it might make sense to merge this patch
> > to the 'renesas.git' repo as well...
> >
> > [1/2] dt-bindings: clock: add R8A77970 CPG core clock definitions
> 
> The modern way to avoid this dependency is to use hardcoded numbers in
> the initial submission of the DTS, cfr.
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/horms/renesas.git/commit/?h=arm64-dt-for-v4.15&id=d917e0b24811eadeba419ba7318b967ee15933b3
> 
> After the definitions have hit upstream, you can replace the hardcoded
> numbers by symbols, cfr.
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/geert/renesas-drivers.git/commit/?h=topic/r8a77995-integration&id=d3f6987db28a4657bf3304eeeb8e2cd8dd510ad0
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/geert/renesas-drivers.git/commit/?h=topic/r8a77995-integration&id=81426223583d5575767c77684be28c40034785bd
> 
> So I don't think Simon will merge the core clock definitions patch, unless
> you plan to submit a full DTS describing the whole SoC in the initial
> submissiong.

Thanks, I would prefer if the DT patches followed the scheme described by
Geert such that they do not depend on any part of this series. I expect
that will allow the smoothest path for acceptance of those patches.