Re: [PATCH 1/2] dt-bindings: thermal: amlogic: describe bus clock for t7-thermal

From: linux-kernel-dev

Date: Wed Sep 23 2026 - 08:29:59 EST


On 9/23/26 2:02 PM, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> On 23/09/2026 13:51, Ronald Claveau via B4 Relay wrote:
>> From: Ronald Claveau <linux-kernel-dev@xxxxxxxx>
>>
>> The t7 thermal sensor needs a bus clock, in addition to the existing
>> functional clock, to gate register access to the sensor. This bus
>> clock is specific to each sensor, unlike the functional clock which
>> is shared between sensors. The current binding only describes a
>> single unnamed clock and therefore cannot represent this hardware
>> requirement, so add clock-names to disambiguate "bus" from "core" and
>
> Index distinguishes, not the clock-names because items have strict
> order. That part of sentence is redundant and more important - if I ack
> this patch, people will use it as an argument in the future review
> discussions.
>
> Drop this part of sentence. clock-names are fine if you need them, but
> still the disambiguation is provided by indices.
>

Thanks for your feedback.
I will replace `so add clock-names to disambiguate "bus" from "core"` by
`so add a second clock entry and clock-names for clarity` in next version.

>> make the second clock mandatory for the t7-thermal compatible only
>
>
> Reviewed-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>
> Best regards,
> Krzysztof


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Best regards,
Ronald