On Tue, Sep 28, 2021 at 8:42 PM John Stultz [off-list ref] wrote:

On Tue, Sep 28, 2021 at 4:56 PM Will McVicker [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

This allows modules to access the value of timekeeping_suspended without
giving them write access to the variable.

It's important to cover "the why" not "the what" in these commit
messages, so you might add a note as to what code will be the user of
this (the samsung/clk-pll.c code changed later in this series).

thanks
-john

Thanks John for the tip. I will try to be better at that in the followup.

For this specific patch, I am adding this new API because the Samsung
PLL driver (drivers/clk/samsung/clk-pll.c) currently is using the
variable 'timekeeping_suspended' to detect timeouts before the
clocksource is initialized or timekeeping itself is suspended. My
patch series aims to modularize the Samsung PLL driver. So to keep the
driver's functionality intact, I need to add this additional API.

--Will

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