Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] timekeeping: Add CONFIG_HAS_PERSISTENT_CLOCK option

[John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>]

On 01/22/2013 11:44 AM, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 11:50:18AM -0800, John Stultz wrote:
>> On 01/15/2013 08:09 AM, Feng Tang wrote:
>>> Make the persistent clock check a kernel config option, so that some
>>> platform can explicitely select it, also make CONFIG_RTC_HCTOSYS depends
>>> on its non-existence, which could prevent the persistent clock and RTC
>>> code from doing similar thing twice during system's init/suspend/resume
>>> phases.
>>>
>>> If the CONFIG_HAS_PERSISTENT_CLOCK=n, then no change happens for kernel
>>> which still does the persistent clock check in timekeeping_init().
>>>
>>> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
>>> Suggested-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
>>> Signed-off-by: Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com>
>> Applied. I also added a dependency for Jason's CONFIG_RTC_SYSTOHC.
> Sort of an ugly config name, since I gather ARM should always set this
> to 'n'...
>
> CONFIG_USE_ONLY_PERSISTENT_CLOCK ?
(Sigh. I got this seemingly microseconds after I sent the pull request :)

So yea, fair point, there could be some confusion. But 
ONLY_PERSISTENT_CLOCK isn't quite right either,  more like 
CONFIG_HAS_PERSISTENT_CLOCK_ALWAYS or something.

Hrm. Let me think on it for a bit, and feel free to suggest further 
improvements.

thanks
-john