[PATCH v5 04/11] clocksource/drivers: Add HPE GXP timer

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 12:04 AM Rob Herring <robh at kernel.org> wrote:
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> On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 4:55 PM Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 11:38 PM Rob Herring <robh at kernel.org> wrote:
> > > On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 08:00:20AM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > > > On Mon, Apr 25, 2022 at 10:38 PM Linus Walleij <linus.walleij at linaro.org> wrote:
> >
> > > > There are multiple ways of doing this that we already discussed
> > > > in the thread. The easiest is probably to have a child node without
> > > > custom registers in the DT and then use the DT helpers to
> > > > populate the linux devices with the correct data.
> > >
> > > I think that's what the wdt binding is doing, but I don't like that.
> > > Maybe it's not a child node, I can't tell.
> > >
> > > Bindings should not be decided on the *current* driver split on one
> > > particular OS. This looks like 1 block, so 1 node.
> >
> > Fair enough.
> >
> > > If that doesn't work well or easy for Linux, then we should fix Linux.
> >
> > Doing a simple platform_device_create_pdata() should work fine here,
> > the only problem that might exist is if the wdt driver needs access to
> > DT properties, as we can't have both devices refer to the same of_node
> > pointer,
>
> Why not? There's even a struct device flag for that.

Ah, I forgot about ->of_node_reused, that should work then if
it needs access to properties.

        Arnd