Re: [PATCH v3] clocksource/drivers/tango_xtal: Add new timer for Tango SoCs

[Marc Gonzalez <marc_gonzalez@sigmadesigns.com>]

On 09/10/2015 15:24, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
> On 10/09/2015 02:13 PM, Marc Gonzalez wrote:
>> Sigma Designs Tango platforms provide a 27 MHz crystal oscillator.
>> Use it for clocksource, sched_clock, and delay_timer.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Marc Gonzalez <marc_gonzalez@sigmadesigns.com>
>> ---
>> I have a nagging feeling that the QUIT_IF macro will get this patch NAKed ;-)
>> My rationale: error-handling tends to take the focus away from the normal
>> path, and put it on the error path. Hiding the details away in a macro
>> helps to keep the error-handling noise to a minimum.
> 
> It is a right feeling :)
> 
> The Linux kernel code follows the same path all across the different 
> sub-systems. So it is not a problem to write: if (err) ..., people is 
> used to read such code and by introducing this macro, that makes the 
> code less readable for them.
> 
> Moreover, the way you wrote the macro is strongly discouraged in the 
> CodingStyle document because there is a 'return' inside.

New patch coming right up.

On a tangential subject, it would seem that platforms with verbose logs
at init might benefit from marking as __initconst strings used in __init
functions.

I discussed this some time ago:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/3/25/688

which pointed to an earlier discussion:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/8/21/255
https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/6/22/149

Regards.