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From: arnd@arndb•de (Arnd Bergmann)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH 4/6 v2] ARM: integrator: initial device tree support
Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2012 14:19:07 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201209061419.07325.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACRpkdYy2CZXXA+kkEaOTznaucxXEwiwSn-5ux0ByHjXrsm-2A@mail.gmail.com>

On Thursday 06 September 2012, Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 3:20 PM, Rob Herring <robherring2@gmail•com> wrote:
> > [Me]
> >> I can of course skip the aliases and go for the timer nodes
> >> I want directly, but that isn't any helpful for people reading the
> >> device tree, is it?
> >
> > Well, the dts doesn't really need to describe how Linux is using things.
> 
> The arm,integrator-clocksource and arm,integrator-clockevent
> are renamed arm,timer-primary and arm,timer-secondary in the
> last patch set.
> 
> Are you OK with this for now, going forward? I'd be happy to
> take a round refactoring it for the next cycle as outlined
> below.

If the timers are really free for use by anything and you want to
encode how Linux uses them, I would suggest naming the aliases
"linux.clocksource" and "linux,clockevent" to make it clear that
you are not describing the hardware here but rather picking
a configuration.

	Arnd

  reply	other threads:[~2012-09-06 14:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-09-01  3:55 [PATCH 1/6 v2] ARM: integrator: call common init function from machine Linus Walleij
2012-09-01  3:55 ` [PATCH 2/6 v2] ARM: integrator: check PL010 device name rather than base address Linus Walleij
2012-09-01  3:55   ` [PATCH 3/6 v2] ARM: plat-versatile: add DT support to FPGA IRQ controller Linus Walleij
2012-09-01  3:55     ` [PATCH 4/6 v2] ARM: integrator: initial device tree support Linus Walleij
2012-09-01  3:55       ` [PATCH 5/6 v2] ARM: integrator: convert AMBA devices to device tree Linus Walleij
2012-09-01  3:55         ` [PATCH 6/6 v2] ARM: integrator: convert platform devices to Device Tree Linus Walleij
2012-09-01 18:41       ` [PATCH 4/6 v2] ARM: integrator: initial device tree support Arnd Bergmann
2012-09-03 21:43         ` Linus Walleij
2012-09-03 21:55           ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2012-09-04  7:19             ` Linus Walleij
2012-09-05  5:34               ` Olof Johansson
2012-09-05  5:47                 ` Linus Walleij
2012-09-02 22:59       ` Rob Herring
2012-09-03 21:51         ` Linus Walleij
2012-09-06 13:20           ` Rob Herring
2012-09-06 13:56             ` Linus Walleij
2012-09-06 14:19               ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2012-09-12 16:52                 ` Linus Walleij
2012-09-06 15:35               ` Rob Herring
2012-09-06 14:14             ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2012-09-01 18:32   ` [PATCH 2/6 v2] ARM: integrator: check PL010 device name rather than base address Arnd Bergmann
2012-09-03 19:40     ` Linus Walleij
2012-09-03 19:51       ` Linus Walleij
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2012-09-05 19:28 [PATCH 4/6 v2] ARM: integrator: initial device tree support Linus Walleij

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