[linux-oxnas] Re: [PATCH 2/7] clocksource: Rename CLOCKSOURCE_OF_DECLARE

[Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 28/05/2017 15:48, Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Sat, May 27, 2017 at 11:58 AM, Daniel Lezcano
> <daniel.lezcano@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> The CLOCKSOUCE_OF_DECLARE macro is used widely for the timers to declare the
>> clocksource at early stage. However, this macro is also used to initialize
>> the clockevent if any, or the clockevent only.
>>
>> It was originally suggested to declare another macro to initialize a
>> clockevent, so in order to separate the two entities even they belong to the
>> same IP. This was not accepted because of the impact on the DT where splitting
>> a clocksource/clockevent definition does not make sense as it is a Linux
>> concept not a hardware description.
>>
>> On the other side, the clocksource has not interrupt declared while the
>> clockevent has, so it is easy from the driver to know if the description is
>> for a clockevent or a clocksource, IOW it could be implemented at the driver
>> level.
>>
>> So instead of dealing with a named clocksource macro, let's use a more generic
>> one: TIMER_OF_DECLARE.
>>
>> The patch has not functional changes.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@xxxxxxxxxx>'
> 
> This makes the macro make sense and I had this idea one time too.
> Awesome.
> Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>
Thanks Linus for reviewing the series.

  -- Daniel

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