Hi Mike, Stephen,

On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 3:17 PM, Geert Uytterhoeven
[off-list ref] wrote:

Currently the R-Car Clock Pulse Generator (CPG) drivers obtains the
state of the mode pins either by a call from the platform code, or
directly by using a hardcoded register access. This is a bit messy, and
creates a dependency between driver and platform code.

This patch series converts the various Renesas R-Car clock drivers
and support code from reading the mode pin states using a hardcoded
register access to using a new minimalistic R-Car RST driver.

All R-Car clock drivers will rely on the presence in DT of a device node
for the RST module.  Backwards compatibility with old DTBs is retained
only for R-Car Gen2, which has fallback code using its own private copy
of rcar_gen2_read_mode_pins().

After this, there is still one remaining user of
rcar_gen2_read_mode_pins() left in platform code. A patch series to
remove that user has already been posted, though ("[PATCH/RFT 0/4] ARM:
shmobile: R-Car Gen2: Allow booting secondary CPU cores in debug mode").
Since v3, the other user has been removed in commit 9f5ce39ddb8f68b3
("ARM: shmobile: rcar-gen2: Obtain extal frequency from DT").

This series consists of 5 parts:
  A. Patches 1 and 2 add DT bindings and driver code for the R-Car RST
     driver,
  B. Patches 3-11 add device nodes for the RST modules to the R-Car DTS
     files,
  C. Patches 12-17 convert the clock drivers to call into the new R-Car
     RST driver,
  D. Patches 18-20 remove passing mode pin state to the clock drivers
     from the platform code,
  E. Patches 21-23 remove dead code from the clock drivers.

As is usually the case with moving functionality from platform code to
DT, there are lots of hard dependencies:
  - The DT updates in Part B can be merged as soon as the DT bindings in
    Part A have been approved,
  - The clock driver updates in Part C depend functionally on the driver
    code in Part A, and on the DT updates in Part B,
  - The board code cleanups in Part D depend on the clock driver updates
    in Part C,
  - The block driver cleanups in part E depend on the board code
    cleanups in part D.

Hence to maintain the required lockstep between SoC driver, clock
drivers, shmobile platform code, and shmobile DT, I propose to queue up
all patches in a single branch against v4.9-rc1, and send pull requests
to both Mike/Stephen (clock) and Simon (rest).

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  - Mike/Stephen/Simon/Magnus: Are you OK with the suggested merge
    approach above?

Is this OK for you?

I'd like to move forward with this, as this is a prerequisite for adding
support for new SoCs (RZ/G) without adding more copies of
rcar_gen2_read_mode_pins(), and removing that function from platform code
for good.

Thanks!

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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