On Tue, Jul 09, 2019 at 04:03:28PM -0600, Rob Herring wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 8, 2019 at 8:41 PM Andrew Lunn <and...@lunn.ch> wrote:
> >
> > > >  Optional properties:
> > > >  - interrupts: interrupt line number for the SMI error/done interrupt
> > > > -- clocks: phandle for up to three required clocks for the MDIO instance
> > > > +- clocks: phandle for up to four required clocks for the MDIO instance
> > >
> > > This needs to enumerate exactly what the clocks are. Shouldn't there
> > > be an additional clock-names value too?
> >
> > Hi Rob
> >
> > The driver does not care what they are called. It just turns them all
> > on, and turns them off again when removed.
> 
> That's fine for the driver to do, but this is the hardware description.
> 
> It's not just what they are called, but how many too. Is 1 clock in
> the DT valid? 0? It would be unusual for a given piece of h/w to
> function with a variable number of clocks.

Hi Rob

The orion5x has 0 clocks. kirkwood, dove, Armada XP, 370 375, 380
has 1 clock. Armada 37xx has 4.

So yes, 1 clock is valid. 0 clocks is also valid. The piece of
hardware itself does not care how many clocks are feeding it, so long
as they are all turned on.

   Andrew 

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