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From: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org>
To: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
Cc: linux-rtc@vger.kernel.org, linux-samsung-soc@vger.kernel.org,
	Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com>,
	Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>,
	Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] rtc: s3c: Remove dead code related to periodic tick handling
Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2020 14:56:18 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201202125618.GC36340@kozik-lap> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6f29a418-6a96-4b4b-c2c4-3722f3ad9895@samsung.com>

On Wed, Dec 02, 2020 at 01:54:32PM +0100, Marek Szyprowski wrote:
> Hi Krzysztof,
> 
> On 02.12.2020 13:49, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 02, 2020 at 12:13:18PM +0100, Marek Szyprowski wrote:
> >> Support for periodic tick interrupts has been moved from the RTC class to
> >> the HR-timers long time ago. Then it has been removed from this driver by
> >> commits 80d4bb515b78 ("RTC: Cleanup rtc_class_ops->irq_set_state") and
> >> 696160fec162 ("RTC: Cleanup rtc_class_ops->irq_set_freq()"). They however
> >> did not remove all the code related to the tick handling. Do it now then.
> >>
> > Update also the bindings (one IRQ less), please.
> >
> > Reviewed-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org>
> 
> Well, in theory bindings describe the hardware not the drivers. Hardware 
> is still capable of triggering the periodic tick interrupt. It is just a 
> Linux kernel policy not to use it at all...

Good point. It will however mean that all DTS (including new) will still
have to provide the tick IRQ. I am fine with this.

Best regards,
Krzysztof


  reply	other threads:[~2020-12-02 12:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <CGME20201202111328eucas1p25b7a68b4fe94addf6088cc3ad4bedcf1@eucas1p2.samsung.com>
2020-12-02 11:13 ` [PATCH 1/2] rtc: s3c: Disable all enable (RTC, tick) bits in the probe Marek Szyprowski
2020-12-02 11:13   ` [PATCH 2/2] rtc: s3c: Remove dead code related to periodic tick handling Marek Szyprowski
2020-12-02 12:49     ` Krzysztof Kozlowski
2020-12-02 12:54       ` Marek Szyprowski
2020-12-02 12:56         ` Krzysztof Kozlowski [this message]
2020-12-02 12:38   ` [PATCH 1/2] rtc: s3c: Disable all enable (RTC, tick) bits in the probe Krzysztof Kozlowski
2020-12-03 22:52   ` Alexandre Belloni

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