Re: [PATCH 3/5] Deforest the function pointer jungle in the time code.

[Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com>]

Hello, I wrote:

>> It matters only for clock source (well I
>> think) that's why I suggested to rewrite a clock source driver only
>> for this platform...

>    Yeah, this platform certainly *needs* another clocksource than the 

    Not necessarily so -- we could use count1 *exclusively* as clocksource 
after some setup, i.e. setting its comparator to all ones, hooking its IRQ and 
enabling the counting.

> counter used for the clock events -- currently it's count/compare 2.

    ... and use that one as clockevent.

>    And this platform also *needs* a separate clocksource driver as well 

    I meant to say "clockevent" here. :-)

> since the PNX8550 counters *do* support auto-reaload mode here -- in 
> fact, this seems to be the only supported mode from the manual excerpt 
> cited here:

> http://www.linux-mips.org/archives/linux-mips/2006-12/msg00194.html

WBR, Sergei