Re: [PATCH 1/4] dt-bindings: mailbox: qcom,apcs: Add separate node for clock-controller

[Stephen Boyd]

Quoting Bjorn Andersson (2025-06-10 20:31:57)
> 
> I'm still sceptical here.
> 
> In the first snippet above, we describe a single IP block which provides
> mailboxes and clocks.
> 
> In the second snippet we're saying that the IP block is a mailbox, and
> then it somehow have a subcomponent which is a clock provider.
> 
> It seems to me that we're choosing the second option because it better
> fits the Linux implementation, rather than that it would be a better
> representation of the hardware. To the point that we can't even describe
> the register range of the subcomponent...
> 

Agreed. Don't workaround problems in the kernel by changing the binding
to have sub-nodes.