[PATCH 4/6 v2] ARM: integrator: initial device tree support

[Linus Walleij]

On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 4:19 PM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de> wrote:
> On Thursday 06 September 2012, Linus Walleij wrote:
>> On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 3:20 PM, Rob Herring <robherring2 at gmail.com> 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