Re: [PATCH 2/3] MIPS: JZ4740: Export timer API
From: Thierry Reding
Date: Sun Sep 02 2012 - 16:46:28 EST
On Sun, Sep 02, 2012 at 10:27:37PM +0200, Lars-Peter Clausen wrote:
> On 09/02/2012 10:21 PM, Thierry Reding wrote:
> > On Sun, Sep 02, 2012 at 04:45:43PM +0200, Lars-Peter Clausen wrote:
> >> On 09/02/2012 11:52 AM, Thierry Reding wrote:
> >>> This is a prerequisite for allowing the PWM driver to be converted to
> >>> the PWM framework.
> >>>
> >>> Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >>
> >> I'd prefer to keep the timer functions inline, some of them are called quite
> >> often in the system clock code.
> >
> > I've opted for this variant because it better hides the register values.
> > If the functions are inlined it also means the complete register
> > definitions need to go into timer.h. If you don't think that's an issue,
> > I can update the patch accordingly.
> >
>
> It's not pretty, but it should be ok. Having a single global function for each
> and every register access is kind of ugly too.
Okay, I'll update the patch accordingly. I probably won't get around to
it until later this week because I won't have access to a computer for a
few days but I'll be back at work on September 10 and should be able to
send the next version of this series out then.
Thierry
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