Re: [alsa-devel] [PATCH 1/8] clk: add helper function clk_is_match()

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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@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > 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".


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