[PATCH v2 00/12] clk/exynos convert clock IDs to macros

Mike Turquette mturquette at linaro.org
Sun Oct 6 16:27:09 EDT 2013


Quoting Kukjin Kim (2013-10-04 19:16:56)
> Mike Turquette wrote:
> > 
> > Quoting Kukjin Kim (2013-09-30 03:11:41)
> > > Mike Turquette wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Quoting Sylwester Nawrocki (2013-09-16 07:33:45)
> > > > > On 09/12/2013 12:50 PM, Kukjin Kim wrote:
> > > > > > Well...I'm not sure changing to use macro is better or not at this
> > > > moment...
> > > > >
> > > > > I think it is. ;) It's really less error prone to have symbolic
> > names
> > > > instead
> > > > > of the plain numbers. The clock ids are defined in one place and it
> > is
> > > > more
> > > > > clear what a clock is by looking at symbolic name. It's especially
> > > > annoying
> > > > > to use plain numbers where are are many clock in a single node, like
> > 10
> > > > or
> > > > > more. What are you main concerns with this ?
> > > >
> > > > I think having the symbolic names is a win for readability.
> > > >
> > > Hmm...since Mike who is a maintainer for ccf agrees with Sylwester's
> > opinion, so I agree. Actually, I had no strong objection on this but still
> > I'm not sure using macro is really better because sometimes the name
> > doesn't give readability really I think though.
> > >
> > > Mike, can you give me your ack on clk stuff?
> > 
> > Yes, but I was thinking to take this change through the clk tree. The
> > new branch based on -rc3 will be published tonight.
> > 
> > Let me know if it causes problems for you for me to take it.
> > 
> Uhm, I think dt changes can make ugly conflicts because of spread dt changing?

Sure, go ahead and take the patches then.

Acked-by: Mike Turquette <mturquette at linaro.org>

Regards,
Mike

> 
> - Kukjin



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