Thread (87 messages) 87 messages, 7 authors, 2017-07-06

[PATCH 46/58] clocksource/drivers: Add a new driver for the Atmel ARM TC blocks

From: Daniel Lezcano <hidden>
Date: 2017-06-07 21:09:00
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On Wed, Jun 07, 2017 at 05:27:50PM +0200, Alexandre Belloni wrote:
On 07/06/2017 at 16:17:35 +0200, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
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You mean you don't like how it is used? Or you don't think having the
timer full name is useful?
The field is not needed, the only place where it is used is where we affect it.
 
It is used in tcb_clksrc_register:

tc.clksrc.name = tc.name;
Yes, but tc.name is only in the scope of the function, so there is no need to
include this field in the structure, just a working buffer in the function is
enough.
 
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The main reason is that RobH doesn't want to have the use (clocksource
or clockevent) of the timer in the DT so when probing a timer, I need to
know whether I already have a clocksource to decide when it is time to
register a clockevent.
Yes, we had this discussion some weeks ago.

This registered hack forces the DT to define first the clocksource, then the
clockevent.

So, I suggest you fold the timer definition into a single one like the other
drivers.
I was going to agree but this is not flexible enough because the
quadrature decoder always uses the first two channels. So on some
products, we may have:
 - TCB0:
   o channels 0,1: qdec
   o channel 2: clocksource

 - TCB1:
   o channels 0,1: qdec
   o channel 2: clockevent

This avoids wasting TCB channels.
Ok. In this case you can check if the interrupt is specified for the node, if
yes, then it is a clockevent.

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