From: ben@trinity.fluff.org (Ben Dooks)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [alsa-devel] [PATCH 1/8] clk: add helper function clk_is_match()
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2015 11:25:09 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150226112509.GR30445@trinity.fluff.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1424944618.3073.6.camel@pengutronix.de>
On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 10:56:58AM +0100, Philipp Zabel wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, den 26.02.2015, 09:02 +0000 schrieb Ben Dooks:
> > On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 09:27:57AM -0800, Mike Turquette wrote:
> [...]
> > > From: Michael Turquette <mturquette@linaro.org>
> > > Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2015 09:11:01 -0800
> > > Subject: [PATCH] clk: introduce clk_is_match
> > >
> > > Some drivers compare struct clk pointers as a means of knowing
> > > if the two pointers reference the same clock hardware. This behavior is
> > > dubious (drivers must not dereference struct clk), but did not cause any
> > > regressions until the per-user struct clk patch was merged. Now the test
> > > for matching clk's will always fail with per-user struct clk's.
> > >
> > > clk_is_match is introduced to fix the regression and prevent drivers
> > > from comparing the pointers manually.
> >
> > small observaton, clk_is_same() is linguistically nicer.
>
> How about clk_equal() ?
That's good, the only issue that's not clear in any of these names is
that does this mean "the same clock", a "clock of the same rate" or a
"clock that is equivalent to in the rate and phase but not subject to
the same gate".
--
Ben Dooks, ben at fluff.org, http://www.fluff.org/ben/
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-02-26 11:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-02-25 14:53 [PATCH 0/8] Fix struct clk pointer comparing Shawn Guo
2015-02-25 14:53 ` [PATCH 1/8] clk: add helper function clk_is_match() Shawn Guo
2015-02-25 17:27 ` Mike Turquette
2015-02-26 0:37 ` Shawn Guo
2015-02-26 9:02 ` [alsa-devel] " Ben Dooks
2015-02-26 9:56 ` Philipp Zabel
2015-02-26 11:25 ` Ben Dooks [this message]
2015-02-26 11:59 ` Ricard Wanderlof
2015-03-04 8:55 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2015-03-04 9:51 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2015-03-08 21:05 ` [PATCH] clk: provide clk_is_match() dummy for non-common clk Arnd Bergmann
2015-03-10 21:42 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2015-03-11 7:09 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2015-03-11 10:22 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2015-03-11 11:17 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2015-03-11 12:29 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2015-03-12 0:35 ` Stephen Boyd
2015-02-25 14:53 ` [PATCH 2/8] ARM: imx: fix struct clk pointer comparing Shawn Guo
2015-02-25 14:53 ` [PATCH 3/8] drm: armada: " Shawn Guo
2015-02-25 14:53 ` [PATCH 4/8] pwm: atmel-hlcdc: " Shawn Guo
2015-02-26 9:22 ` Nicolas Ferre
2015-02-26 9:31 ` Boris Brezillon
2015-03-11 10:54 ` Thierry Reding
2015-02-25 14:53 ` [PATCH 5/8] serial: samsung: " Shawn Guo
2015-02-25 14:53 ` [PATCH 6/8] ASoC: fsl_esai: " Shawn Guo
2015-02-26 2:36 ` Mark Brown
2015-02-25 14:53 ` [PATCH 7/8] ASoC: fsl_spdif: " Shawn Guo
2015-02-25 21:04 ` Stephen Boyd
2015-02-26 1:17 ` Shawn Guo
2015-02-26 2:12 ` Mark Brown
2015-02-26 2:20 ` Shawn Guo
2015-02-26 2:29 ` Mark Brown
2015-02-26 2:36 ` Mark Brown
2015-02-25 14:53 ` [PATCH 8/8] ASoC: kirkwood: " Shawn Guo
2015-02-26 2:12 ` Mark Brown
2015-02-26 2:36 ` Mark Brown
2015-02-25 15:03 ` [PATCH 0/8] Fix " Russell King - ARM Linux
2015-02-25 17:55 ` Mike Turquette
2015-02-25 20:42 ` Stephen Boyd
2015-02-26 1:21 ` Shawn Guo
2015-02-26 1:24 ` Mike Turquette
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