linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 1/8] clocksource: dmtimer: Remove all the exports

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Date:   Tue, 12 Dec 2017 13:52:19 +0530
From:   Keerthy <j-keerthy@...com>
To:     Ladislav Michl <ladis@...ux-mips.org>
CC:     <tony@...mide.com>, <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>,
        <aaro.koskinen@....fi>, <thierry.reding@...il.com>,
        <grygorii.strashko@...com>, <linux-omap@...r.kernel.org>,
        <robh+dt@...nel.org>, <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
        <linux-pwm@...r.kernel.org>, <sebastian.reichel@...labora.co.uk>,
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <t-kristo@...com>,
        <linux@...linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 1/8] clocksource: dmtimer: Remove all the exports



On Tuesday 12 December 2017 01:49 PM, Ladislav Michl wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 01:38:04PM +0530, Keerthy wrote:
>> On Tuesday 12 December 2017 01:31 PM, Ladislav Michl wrote:
>>> On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 01:01:51PM +0530, Keerthy wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Tuesday 12 December 2017 12:46 PM, Ladislav Michl wrote:
>>>>> Keerthy,
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 11:42:10AM +0530, Keerthy wrote:
>>>>>> Remove all the unwanted exports from the driver
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm adding event capture capability to the pwm-omap driver and so far used
>>>>> v4.15-rc3 as codebase.
>>>>>
>>>>> Intended use is an IR receiver; for that I need to measure pulses width and
>>>>> spaces between pulses. So DM timer was setup to generate interupt after
>>>>> both TCAR1 and TCAR2 are filled, values are passed to IR decoder and
>>>>> TCAR_IT_FLAG is cleared.
>>>>>
>>>>> Of course, this is just proof of concept and needs to be polished and
>>>>> generalized, but to make it at least work I need functions you just
>>>>> unexported (plus some new).
>>>>>
>>>>> Question is whenever we need this level of indirection (omap_dm_timer_ops)
>>>>> or plain exports are enough.
>>>>
>>>> The general guidance is not to do plain exports and go via
>>>> omap_dm_timer_ops.
>>>
>>> ...in contrary what other clocksource drivers are doing.
>>>
>>> Now I'm assuming it is okay to extend omap_dm_timer_ops. That would mean
>>> check for ops members to be assigned should be also extended or we should
>>> delete it altogether and assume all members are populated?
>>
>> It should be fine to extend omap_dm_timer_ops. What are the ops missing
>> for your new implementation?
> 
> Read capture registers, configure capture and ack interrupt. Perhaps set_pwm
> could be extended to configure capture as well.
> 
> I'll update my code on top of your changes and we'll see how it would work.

Okay Thanks!

> 
>> Tony,
>>
>> Your thoughts on the above?
>>
>> R