From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: akpm@linux-foundation.org (Andrew Morton) Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2018 20:49:54 -0700 Subject: [PATCH v7 01/10] counter: Introduce the Generic Counter interface In-Reply-To: <51b75b2b4495d4ad7ed173d91a726379bdae2353.1529607879.git.vilhelm.gray@gmail.com> References: <51b75b2b4495d4ad7ed173d91a726379bdae2353.1529607879.git.vilhelm.gray@gmail.com> Message-ID: <20180717204954.4b5e371603d0b40b2aaabbb8@linux-foundation.org> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Thu, 21 Jun 2018 17:07:08 -0400 William Breathitt Gray wrote: > This patch introduces the Generic Counter interface for supporting > counter devices. > +EXPORT_SYMBOL(count_direction_str); +EXPORT_SYMBOL(count_mode_str); +EXPORT_SYMBOL(counter_signal_enum_read); +EXPORT_SYMBOL(counter_signal_enum_write); +EXPORT_SYMBOL(counter_signal_enum_available_read); +EXPORT_SYMBOL(counter_count_enum_read); +EXPORT_SYMBOL(counter_count_enum_write); +EXPORT_SYMBOL(counter_count_enum_available_read); +EXPORT_SYMBOL(counter_device_enum_read); +EXPORT_SYMBOL(counter_device_enum_write); +EXPORT_SYMBOL(counter_device_enum_available_read); +EXPORT_SYMBOL(signal_read_value_set); +EXPORT_SYMBOL(count_read_value_set); +EXPORT_SYMBOL(count_write_value_get); +EXPORT_SYMBOL(counter_register); +EXPORT_SYMBOL(counter_unregister); +EXPORT_SYMBOL(devm_counter_register); +EXPORT_SYMBOL(devm_counter_unregister); The naming is a bit chaotic. Most of the symbols start with counter_, which is good. But a handful do not. Also, symbols called signal_* make my head spin - Linux already has a firmly ingrained notion of what a signal is, and this ain't it ;) Although the kernel tends to use sig_ for signals-as-an-IPC-thing. Also, many many drivers deal with signals-as-an-electrical-thing - is it appropriate for this particular driver to take that namespace?