Hi Daniel On 05/27/2017 11:58 AM, Daniel Lezcano wrote: > The CLOCKSOUCE_OF_DECLARE macro is used widely for the timers to declare the > clocksource at early stage. However, this macro is also used to initialize > the clockevent if any, or the clockevent only. > > It was originally suggested to declare another macro to initialize a > clockevent, so in order to separate the two entities even they belong to the > same IP. This was not accepted because of the impact on the DT where splitting > a clocksource/clockevent definition does not make sense as it is a Linux > concept not a hardware description. > > On the other side, the clocksource has not interrupt declared while the > clockevent has, so it is easy from the driver to know if the description is > for a clockevent or a clocksource, IOW it could be implemented at the driver > level. > > So instead of dealing with a named clocksource macro, let's use a more generic > one: TIMER_OF_DECLARE. > > The patch has not functional changes. > > Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano at linaro.org> > --- [...] > diff --git a/drivers/clocksource/clksrc_st_lpc.c b/drivers/clocksource/clksrc_st_lpc.c > index 03cc492..a1d01eb 100644 > --- a/drivers/clocksource/clksrc_st_lpc.c > +++ b/drivers/clocksource/clksrc_st_lpc.c > @@ -132,4 +132,4 @@ static int __init st_clksrc_of_register(struct device_node *np) > > return ret; > } > -CLOCKSOURCE_OF_DECLARE(ddata, "st,stih407-lpc", st_clksrc_of_register); > +TIMER_OF_DECLARE(ddata, "st,stih407-lpc", st_clksrc_of_register); For the STi driver: Acked-by: Patrice Chotard <patrice.chotard at st.com> Thanks
