From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
To: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Yong Zhang <yong.zhang0@gmail.com>, linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Subject: Re: Any NXP PNX user left (was: Re: pnx_clocksource broken?)
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2013 12:54:43 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130122115443.GB14944@linux-mips.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120416140040.GA2378@linux-mips.org>
On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 04:00:40PM +0200, Ralf Baechle wrote:
> > Looking at arch/mips/pnx8550/common/time.c the pnx_clocksource never
> > seems to be assigned a mult/shift value before it calls
> > clocksource_register(). Clearly this is broken and I suspect this
> > clocksource is never used.
> >
> > I was hoping to convert this driver over (its the last of 3
> > remaining) to use clocksource_register_hz/khz() but I'm not sure
> > what the actual frequency of the hardware should be. Is
> > mips_hpt_frequency the right value here?
> >
> > Even so, if this is clocksource is never used, should it just be removed?
>
> Iow PNX has not had a functioning clocksource for a very long time. Equally
> there has not been any user feedback for ages and I wonder if that makes the
> PNX code a candidate for removal.
>
> Any remaining PNX users should raise their voice now or PNX will be
> toast. Soon.
Not soon at all but nobody's answered so I've removed all of PNX8550.
Ralf
prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-01-22 11:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-04-11 1:58 pnx_clocksource broken? John Stultz
2012-04-16 14:00 ` Any NXP PNX user left (was: Re: pnx_clocksource broken?) Ralf Baechle
2013-01-22 11:54 ` Ralf Baechle [this message]
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