On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 11:44:44AM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:

On Tuesday 23 September 2014 18:04:37 Josh Cartwright wrote:

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+- clocks : shall contain the input clock phandle

Just nitpicking, but this is not just a phandle, it's a clock
descriptor, which is a phandle followed by a set of arguments,
which may be empty, depending the on the clock controller
implementation.

We're _extremely_ inconsistent with terminology, so it's not confusing
people don't know what to put here.

Elsewhere people say "phandle + clock specifier" (which is correct),
"clock reference" (which is ok, but sounds like a phandle), etc. From
what I recall some documentation says some *-specifier properties
include the phandle too.

It would be really nice if we had one consistent way of refering to
phandle+args style properties.

I would just call it 'the input clock', rather than 'input clock
phandle'.

That's fine by me, given clocks is a well-understood standard property.

Mark.