[PATCH 09/14] at91: switch pit timer to early platform devices

[plagnioj@jcrosoft.com (Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD)]

On 11:08 Sun 08 May     , Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 03:36:58AM +0200, Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD wrote:
> > yes we still need a calback to call the early probe
> > but just a callback for the init no resume, suspend
> > 
> > if we want multiple timer early which I do not think is necessarly
> > for really early one timer is enough if you need more you can initialise them
> > later
> > 
> > so if we keep this constrain
> > 
> > in the arm timer init
> > early_platform_driver_register_all("earlytimer");
> > early_platform_driver_probe("earlytimer", 1 , 0);
> > 
> > and in the init_early you just need to do
> > early_platform_add_devices(devices, nb);
> > 
> > so it's more generic
> 
> I'm still not convinced.  What it seems to be doing is moving from this:
> 
> time_init() ->
> 	system_timer->init() ->
> 		platform code
> 
> to this:
> 
> setup_arch() ->
> 	init_early() ->
> 		platform code ->
> 			early_platform_add_devices()
> time_init() ->
> 	early_platform_driver_register_all(),
> 	early_platform_driver_probe() ->
> 		early timer probe function (platform code)
> 
> which to me just looks a whole lot more complex without benefit.
> 
> Platform code still has to make the decision at some point about which
> timers are added - in the former case via the system_timer->init()
> callback or in the latter case by the init_early() callback.
> 
> I can't see how this results in something better, either by simplifing
> the code or resulting in any kind of consolidation.  That's backed up
> by this patch adding around 230 lines of code.
Simplify cross arch timer drivers
Example on SH-Mobile

And Renesas is not the only vendor to have multiple ARCH ip shared
more are arriving

allow to probe more than one timer genericly
allow to pass resource and platform data in a standard way

this patch switch from static to allocated device that's why we add 230 lines
if you just add the early device only
you need aboud 20 lines maybe less

We could have a common cross ARCH way to init timer
via earlytimer
so the drivers are arch independant

and no need anymore to store the timer in arch/arm/....
but all timer move to drivers/clocksource/
so less code in arch specially on arm where nearly all vendor have it's own
timer drivers

Best Regards,
J.