Re: [PATCH 2/2] clk: Move init fields from clk to clk_hw

[Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>]

On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 05:47:42PM -0600, Paul Walmsley wrote:
> Hello Sascha
> 
> On Tue, 20 Mar 2012, Sascha Hauer wrote:
> 
> > [ C99 structure initializer elided ]
> > 
> > This will make a 4000 line file out of a 500 line file. Now when for
> > some reason struct clk_divider changes we end with big patches. If the
> > clk core gets a new fancy CLK_ flag which we want to have then again
> > we end up with big patches. Then there's also the possibility that
> > someone finds out that .lock and .hw.flags are common to all dividers
> > and comes up with a #define DEFINE_CLK_DIVIDER again to share common
> > fields.
> 
> At least we can understand easily what is being changed.  Readability, 
> particularly by others not familiar with the clock data, is more important 
> to me.
> 
> So like Saravana, I too prefer C99 structure initializers.  At least there 
> should be a choice.
> 
> Quick quiz: in this line below:
> 
> imx_clk_divider("foo_clk", "bar_clk", CCM_BASE + 0x20, 0x5, 0x3);
> 
> which field is the bitfield shift and which is the bitfield width? :-)

I can't even remember the argument order in memset, but I never voted
for a struct memset_init ;)

Sascha

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