[PATCH 0/2] clk: scmi: Fix name defer

Marek Vasut marek.vasut at mailbox.org
Thu Dec 18 18:25:29 CET 2025


On 12/13/25 12:36 PM, Peng Fan wrote:
> Hi Marek,
> 
>> Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] clk: scmi: Fix name defer
>>
>> On 12/12/25 7:32 AM, Peng Fan wrote:
>>
>> Hello Peng,
>>
>>>> Subject: [PATCH 0/2] clk: scmi: Fix name defer
>>>
>>> I see this patchset is delegated to you, mainly because patch 2 is to
>>> fix imx95-blk-ctrl. Since this patchset is based on Patrice's clk scmi
>>> fixes, I am thinking to pick all the scmi fixes including this
>>> patchset to send a PR to Tom for master soon.
>> Please don't, I think this implementation has unresolved questions and
>> frankly, I also think this is completely wrong approach. You should
>> model the relationship between clock in DT using "clock" property and
>> phandles, and then let the U-Boot clock core resolve those
>> relationships.
> 
> Ah, I need to give a look to model it in DT, but the DT is already in
> Linux Upstream. Driver using current DT is broken.
> 
> Without this fix, we need to live with it in this release cycle.
> 
> Updating DT and drivers requires more time.
How does this even work in Linux ? The clock relationships must be 
somehow established there too, right ?

Note that you can always use -u-boot.dtsi to add u-boot specific tweaks, 
ST does it extensively anyway.


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