Re: [PATCH 1/2] dt-bindings: sound: ep93xx: Add I2S and AC'97 descriptions

From: Mark Brown
Date: Tue Feb 14 2023 - 10:02:16 EST


On Tue, Feb 14, 2023 at 03:26:14PM +0100, Alexander Sverdlin wrote:
> On Tue, 2023-02-14 at 15:11 +0100, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:

> > OK, but then I like the example - if datasheet would use name
> > "clk_clk_this_is_clk" would you still find it meaningful?

> > Every clock input in clocks is a clock. There is usually no need to say
> > that a clock is a clock...

> I see you point, but this is legacy code (sound/soc/cirrus/ep93xx-i2s.c)
> which took these names back in platform data times... I also see that
> rather majority of *i2s*.yaml use something "*clk", so maybe it could
> be accepted for legacy code?

Even ignoring the whole legacy thing these are industry standard
names for the clocks - they are pretty much universally named and
referred to with the clk suffix. I can't see what removing it
would accomplish other than reducing clarity.

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