On Tue, Jun 06, 2017 at 11:41:11AM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Mon, Jun 5, 2017 at 10:59 AM, Joel Stanley <j...@jms.id.au> wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 5, 2017 at 5:18 PM, Andrew Jeffery <and...@aj.id.au> wrote: > >> The merging of a number of clocksource drivers into fttmr010 means we > >> require clock-names to be specified in the Aspeed timer node, else the > >> clocksource fails to probe and boot hangs. > > > > Arnd, > > > > Linus' reworked timer driver will go into 4.13. > > > > Can we get this patch merged into 4.12 as a fix so we don't end up > > with a broken boot at any stage? > > Hmm, can't we make the driver backward-compatible and have it fall > back on the first clock if no clk named "PCLK" is found? Otherwise > you still have an incompatible change in the DT binding and it will > break if someone uses an older dtb with a newer kernel.
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