[U-Boot] [RFC][Timer API] Revised Specification - Implementation details

[Graeme Russ]

Hi Wolfgang,

On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 3:49 PM, Wolfgang Denk <wd at denx.de> wrote:
> Dear Simon Glass,
>
> In message <BANLkTi=T_pzB9TOPtQuNZXarvQsHN80P3g at mail.gmail.com> you wrote:
>>
>> I do think it would be nice to put a time_ prefix before all the time
>> functions, but this is a pretty minor point.
>
> Agree.
>
> By now, I also find get_timer() kind of misleading - one might expect
> from that name that it allocates one of (eventually several available)
> timers.  We should probably rename it into  time_read(); the newly
> suggested function would then become  time_delta() [or time_diff()].

I would personally like to see two sets of parallel time_* functions,
one for milliseconds and one for microseconds. The microsecond API is
going to be critical for boot profiling and I see no reason to think
about it now rather than later.

Regards,

Graeme