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

Kukjin Kim kgene.kim at samsung.com
Mon Sep 30 06:11:41 EDT 2013


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?

Thanks,
Kukjin




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