Hi Wolfgang, On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 3:49 PM, Wolfgang Denk <w...@denx.de> wrote: > Dear Simon Glass, > > In message <BANLkTi=t_pzb9toptqunzxarvqshn80...@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 _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot