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From: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
To: Claudiu.Beznea@microchip.com, alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com
Cc: mark.rutland@arm.com, devicetree@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ludovic.Desroches@microchip.com,
	robh+dt@kernel.org, tglx@linutronix.de,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, arnd.bergmann@linaro.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] clocksource/drivers/timer-microchip-pit64b: add Microchip PIT64B support
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2019 10:06:57 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1ebaa306-8a7f-fd58-56e0-a61b767357f7@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <34574b0f-7d09-eb92-ea62-4199c293b0e7@microchip.com>

On 21/06/2019 12:34, Claudiu.Beznea@microchip.com wrote:
> Hi Daniel,
> 
> On 20.06.2019 11:53, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
>> Hi Claudiu,
>>
>> sorry for the late reply.
> 
> No problem, I understand.
> 
>>
>>
>> On 13/06/2019 16:12, Claudiu.Beznea@microchip.com wrote:
>>> Hi Daniel,
>>>
>>> On 31.05.2019 13:41, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi Claudiu,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 30/05/2019 09:46, Claudiu.Beznea@microchip.com wrote:
>>>>> Hi Daniel,
>>>>>
>>>>> Taking into account the discussion on this tread and the fact that we have
>>>>> no answer from Rob on this topic (I'm talking about [1]), what do you think
>>>>> it would be best for this driver to be accepted the soonest? Would it be OK
>>>>> for you to mimic the approach done by:
>>>>>
>>>>> drivers/clocksource/timer-integrator-ap.c
>>>>>
>>>>> with the following bindings in DT:
>>>>>
>>>>> aliases {
>>>>> 	arm,timer-primary = &timer2;
>>>>> 	arm,timer-secondary = &timer1;
>>>>> };
>>>>>
>>>>> also in PIT64B driver?
>>>>>
>>>>> Or do you think re-spinning the Alexandre's patches at [2] (which seems to
>>>>> me like the generic way to do it) would be better?
>>>>
>>>> This hardware / OS connection problem is getting really annoying for
>>>> everyone and this pattern is repeating itself since several years. It is
>>>> time we fix it properly.
>>>>
>>>> The first solution looks hackish from my POV. The second approach looks
>>>> nicer and generic as you say. So I would vote for [2]
>>>> flagging approach proposed by Mark [3].
>>>
>>> With this flagging approach this would mean a kind unification of
>>> clocksource and clockevent functionalities under a single one, right? So
>>> that the driver would register to the above layers only one device w/ 2
>>> functionalities (clocksource and clockevent)? Please correct me if I'm
>>> wrong? If so, from my point of view this would require major re-working of
>>> clocksource and clockevent subsystems. Correctly if I wrongly understood,
>>> please.
>>
>> Well, actually I was not expecting to change all the framework but just
>> pass a flag to the probe function telling if the node is for a
>> clocksource, a clockevent or both.
>>
> 
> Giving so, whit these proposals I'm thinking at having something like this,
> using Alexandre's new macros from [2] and passing a bitmask to timer's
> probing functions (in the above example adapted only for pit64b driver
> introduced in this thread):

Yes basically that is what I had in mind. Thanks for taking care of
that. However after seeing the code I realize the impact is larger than
expected as all the TIMER_OF_DECLARE will be impacted.

AFAICT, this driver can be converted to the timer-of API. So I think it
makes sense to keep this contained in the API.

In the function timer_of_init(), we can add the parsing of the node and
set the timer-of flags with:

#define TIMER_OF_IS_CLOCKSOURCE	 0x8
#define TIMER_OF_IS_CLOCKEVENT  0x10

In addition the API:

int timer_of_is_clocksource(struct timer_of *to)
{
	return (to & TIMER_OF_IS_CLOCKSOURCE);
}
int timer_of_is_clockevents(struct timer_of *to)
{
	return (to & TIMER_OF_IS_CLOCKEVENT);
}




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  reply	other threads:[~2019-06-24  8:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-03-14 16:26 [PATCH 0/2] add Microchip PIT64B timer Claudiu.Beznea
2019-03-14 16:26 ` [PATCH 1/5] dt-bindings: arm: atmel: add bindings for PIT64B Claudiu.Beznea
2019-03-31  6:40   ` Rob Herring
2019-04-01  8:41   ` Nicolas.Ferre
2019-03-14 16:26 ` [PATCH 2/5] clocksource/drivers/timer-microchip-pit64b: add Microchip PIT64B support Claudiu.Beznea
2019-04-01  8:40   ` Nicolas.Ferre
2019-04-08  8:43   ` Daniel Lezcano
2019-04-08 11:48     ` Claudiu.Beznea
2019-04-08 12:11     ` Alexandre Belloni
2019-04-08 12:35       ` Daniel Lezcano
2019-04-08 12:42         ` Alexandre Belloni
2019-04-08 13:22           ` Daniel Lezcano
2019-04-08 14:01             ` Alexandre Belloni
2019-05-30  7:46       ` Claudiu.Beznea
2019-05-31 10:41         ` Daniel Lezcano
2019-06-13 14:12           ` Claudiu.Beznea
2019-06-20  8:53             ` Daniel Lezcano
2019-06-21 10:34               ` Claudiu.Beznea
2019-06-24  8:06                 ` Daniel Lezcano [this message]
2019-03-14 16:26 ` [PATCH 3/5] MAINTAINERS: change section name to be more generic Claudiu.Beznea
2019-04-01  8:41   ` Nicolas.Ferre
2019-03-14 16:26 ` [PATCH 4/5] MAINTAINERS: add myself as maintainer Claudiu.Beznea
2019-04-01  8:41   ` Nicolas.Ferre
2019-03-14 16:26 ` [PATCH 5/5] MAINTAINERS: add timer-microchip-pit64c.c Claudiu.Beznea
2019-04-01  8:41   ` Nicolas.Ferre

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