Re: [PATCH 0/2] clockevents: Hide CLOCK_EVT_STATE_* from rest of the kernel

[Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>]

On Wed, 20 May 2015, Viresh Kumar wrote:
> So, probably we are left with following choices:
> 
> - Maintain state internally within the driver. SMP cases need per-cpu
>   storage as clkevt devices are per-cpu. Probably that's a NONO as
>   well ?
> 
> - Use CLK_EVT_STATE_* directly in drivers (similar to the way we use
>   CLK_EVT_MODE_* today).
> 
> - Write the routines I proposed as macros or inline functions in
>   clockchips.h, and use them. Of course that wouldn't stop exposing
>   CLK_EVT_STATE_* to rest of the kernel.

I don't think that there is anything wrong with letting drivers access
it. We can make it a little bit harder to do it without accessor
functions, like I did with the state in irq_data: state_use_accessors
and have inline helpers to access it.

That makes it simple to grep for abusers :)

Thanks,

	tglx