On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 4:19 PM, Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thursday 06 September 2012, Linus Walleij wrote: >> On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 3:20 PM, Rob Herring <[email protected]> wrote: >> > [Me] >> >> I can of course skip the aliases and go for the timer nodes >> >> I want directly, but that isn't any helpful for people reading the >> >> device tree, is it? >> > >> > Well, the dts doesn't really need to describe how Linux is using things. >> >> The arm,integrator-clocksource and arm,integrator-clockevent >> are renamed arm,timer-primary and arm,timer-secondary in the >> last patch set. >> >> Are you OK with this for now, going forward? I'd be happy to >> take a round refactoring it for the next cycle as outlined >> below. > > If the timers are really free for use by anything and you want to > encode how Linux uses them, I would suggest naming the aliases > "linux.clocksource" and "linux,clockevent" to make it clear that > you are not describing the hardware here but rather picking > a configuration.
So the renaming of the aliases to arm,timer-primary and arm-timer-secondary is to be taken as a hint to the OS to use these two as primary and secondary respectively. linux.foo seems bad in comparison, but if you insist... Yours, Linus Walleij _______________________________________________ devicetree-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/devicetree-discuss
