linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] clocksource/drivers/fttmr010: fix invalid interrupt register access

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Date:   Tue, 2 Oct 2018 09:35:02 +0200
From:   Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
To:     taoren@...com
Cc:     Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Joel Stanley <joel@....id.au>,
        Andrew Jeffery <andrew@...id.au>, mine260309@...il.com,
        OpenBMC Maillist <openbmc@...ts.ozlabs.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-aspeed@...ts.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] clocksource/drivers/fttmr010: fix invalid interrupt
 register access

Hi Tao, thanks for your patch!

On Tue, Oct 2, 2018 at 6:14 AM Tao Ren <taoren@...com> wrote:

> -       if (fttmr010->count_down)
> +       if (fttmr010->count_down) {
>                 writel(~0, fttmr010->base + TIMER1_LOAD);

This struct member "count_down" is a bit badly named now don't
you think?

The patch is fine semantically, but please rename this member
"is_aspeed" or something like that and update the code everywhere,
then insert a comments like

/* The Aspeed variant counts downward */
/* The Aspeed variant does not have a match interrupt */

in the code snippets so we see what is going on.

Yours,
Linus Walleij