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

[Heiko Stübner <heiko@xxxxxxxxx>]

Am Samstag, 27. Mai 2017, 11:58:43 CEST schrieb Daniel Lezcano:
> 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>
> ---
[...]
> diff --git a/drivers/clocksource/rockchip_timer.c
> b/drivers/clocksource/rockchip_timer.c index 49c02be..c27f4c8 100644
> --- a/drivers/clocksource/rockchip_timer.c
> +++ b/drivers/clocksource/rockchip_timer.c
> @@ -303,5 +303,5 @@ static int __init rk_timer_init(struct device_node *np)
>  	return -EINVAL;
>  }
> 
> -CLOCKSOURCE_OF_DECLARE(rk3288_timer, "rockchip,rk3288-timer",
> rk_timer_init); -CLOCKSOURCE_OF_DECLARE(rk3399_timer,
> "rockchip,rk3399-timer", rk_timer_init); +TIMER_OF_DECLARE(rk3288_timer,
> "rockchip,rk3288-timer", rk_timer_init); +TIMER_OF_DECLARE(rk3399_timer,
> "rockchip,rk3399-timer", rk_timer_init); diff --git
> a/drivers/clocksource/samsung_pwm_timer.c
> b/drivers/clocksource/samsung_pwm_timer.c index a68e653..21cd72c 100644

Acked-by: Heiko Stuebner <heiko@xxxxxxxxx>