[U-Boot] [PATCH (repost)] Nomadik: fix reset_timer()

[Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>]

Dear Alessandro Rubini,

In message <20091103152354.GA12451@mail.gnudd.com> you wrote:
> > Um... why is READ_TIMER doing such a stupid thing as negating values?
> 
> Because the counter counts down. I could have returns "0 - value" or
> "~value".  Since I chose the latter initially, this fix keeps the same
> approach.  I can't return the value I read, since it goes backwards.

Well, to me READ_TIMER() sounds like a function/macro to read some
value from some timer; if that timer counts doen, then successive
calls to that macro/function would return decreasing values. Counting
up or down is a property of the specific timer and should be handled
elsewhere; such policy does IMHO not belong into some accessor
function.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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