[PATCH v4 5/5] clk/exynos5260: add clock file for exynos5260

Rahul Sharma r.sh.open at gmail.com
Sun Mar 9 22:10:08 EDT 2014


Hi Tomasz,

On 10 March 2014 05:29, Tomasz Figa <tomasz.figa at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 08.03.2014 10:24, Pankaj Dubey wrote:
>>
>> Hi Rahul,
>
>
>> I modified code as per our discussion and addressed all comments
>> including moving fixed clock to DT
>> and found it's working well, so we can now finalize which way to  go
>> ahead.
>> Following is some data between V4 and probable next version, which might
>> help in making decision.
>>
>> drivers/clk/samsung/exynos5260-clock.c
>>
>> Before Change
>> LoC: 1890
>> size drivers/clk/samsung/clk-exynos5260.o
>>     text       data        bss        dec        hex    filename
>>    14226      14956          0      29182       71fe
>> drivers/clk/samsung/clk-exynos5260.o
>>
>> After Change:
>> LoC: 1806
>> size drivers/clk/samsung/clk-exynos5260.o
>>     text       data        bss        dec        hex    filename
>>    15446      14544          0      29990       7526
>> drivers/clk/samsung/clk-exynos5260.o
>
>
> Well, somehow I've been under impression that the change would bring more
> significant results. Here we can see slight reduction in lines of code, but
> also slight increase of kernel image size. Still, in general, nothing
> extreme.
>
> In this case I'd probably go with Rahul's original code, as it doesn't
> require second matching and separate match table, which adds redundant
> compatible strings used just for this extra matching pass.
>
> I guess this is all just bike shedding, though.

yea. I understand. Will proceed as you said.

Regards,
Rahul Sharma

>
> Best regards,
> Tomasz



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