[PATCH v5 1/8] clocksource: dmtimer: Remove all the exports

Ladislav Michl ladis at linux-mips.org
Tue Dec 12 00:01:34 PST 2017


On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 01:01:51PM +0530, Keerthy wrote:
> 
> 
> On Tuesday 12 December 2017 12:46 PM, Ladislav Michl wrote:
> > Keerthy,
> > 
> > On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 11:42:10AM +0530, Keerthy wrote:
> >> Remove all the unwanted exports from the driver
> > 
> > I'm adding event capture capability to the pwm-omap driver and so far used
> > v4.15-rc3 as codebase.
> > 
> > Intended use is an IR receiver; for that I need to measure pulses width and
> > spaces between pulses. So DM timer was setup to generate interupt after
> > both TCAR1 and TCAR2 are filled, values are passed to IR decoder and
> > TCAR_IT_FLAG is cleared.
> > 
> > Of course, this is just proof of concept and needs to be polished and
> > generalized, but to make it at least work I need functions you just
> > unexported (plus some new).
> > 
> > Question is whenever we need this level of indirection (omap_dm_timer_ops)
> > or plain exports are enough.
> 
> The general guidance is not to do plain exports and go via
> omap_dm_timer_ops.

...in contrary what other clocksource drivers are doing.

Now I'm assuming it is okay to extend omap_dm_timer_ops. That would mean
check for ops members to be assigned should be also extended or we should
delete it altogether and assume all members are populated?

Thanks,
	ladis



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