On Sat, May 27, 2017 at 11:58 AM, Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@xxxxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxxxx> Could you either leave the old name as an alias for one release, or introduce the new name as an alias now for 4.13? I think that that would make it easier to merge new drivers. Otherwise this looks good to me, Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
