Re: [GIT PULL] omap changes for v2.6.39 merge window
From: Pavel Machek
Date: Thu May 26 2011 - 09:38:21 EST
Hi!
> There's a number of down-counting clocksources using various methods to
> convert to an up-counting value - sometimes -readl(), sometimes
> cs->mask - readl() and sometimes ~readl().
>
> Then there's those which are either 16-bit or 32-bit, and some of those
> 16-bit implementations must use readw() to avoid bus faults.
>
> Combining all those together you end up with something pretty disgusting,
> and an initialization function taking 7 arguments (iomem pointer, name,
> rating, tick rate, size, up/down counter, clocksource flags).
Having structure with 7 fields describing the clock source seems
completely sane...
Pavel
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