[RFC 1/2] clocksource: Introduce a context storage for the clocksource structure

[Sascha Hauer]

On Fri, Jun 10, 2022 at 12:42:58PM +0300, Alexander Shiyan wrote:
> пт, 10 июн. 2022 г. в 12:35, Sascha Hauer <sha at pengutronix.de>:
> >
> > On Fri, Jun 10, 2022 at 11:56:31AM +0300, Alexander Shiyan wrote:
> > > This patch adds a context entry for the clocksource structure.
> > > This field can be used to store any private driver data, and to
> > > distinguish between multiple driver instances for debugging purposes.
> >
> > You could embed struct clocksource in a private struct and use
> > container_of() to get that from the struct clocksource *.
> 
> Oh sure. But even in this case, we need to pass the pointer of the
> clocksource structure to the read() function.

Indeed. I didn't notice this change in your patch. That part would be
useful

Sascha

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