Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] powerpc/mpic: add global timer support

[Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>]

On 08/13/2012 01:17 AM, Li Yang-R58472 wrote:
> 
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Wang Dongsheng-B40534
>> Sent: Monday, August 13, 2012 1:54 PM
>> To: Wood Scott-B07421
>> Cc: benh@kernel.crashing.org; paulus@samba.org; linuxppc-
>> dev@lists.ozlabs.org; Gala Kumar-B11780; Li Yang-R58472
>> Subject: RE: [PATCH v2 2/2] powerpc/mpic: add global timer support
>>
>>
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Wood Scott-B07421
>>> Sent: Saturday, August 11, 2012 3:40 AM
>>> To: Wang Dongsheng-B40534
>>> Cc: benh@kernel.crashing.org; paulus@samba.org; linuxppc-
>>> dev@lists.ozlabs.org; Gala Kumar-B11780; Li Yang-R58472
>>> Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] powerpc/mpic: add global timer support
>>>
>>> On 08/10/2012 12:54 AM, Dongsheng.wang@freescale.com wrote:
>>>> +static const struct of_device_id mpic_timer_ids[] = {
>>>> +	{ .compatible = "open-pic,global-timer", },
>>>> +	{ .compatible = "fsl,global-timer", },
>>>> +	{},
>>>> +};
>>>> +
>>>> +static int __init mpic_timer_init(void) {
>>>> +	struct device_node *np = NULL;
>>>> +
>>>> +	for_each_node_by_type(np, "open-pic")
>>>> +		if (of_match_node(mpic_timer_ids, np))
>>>> +			group_init(np);
>>>> +
>>>> +	if (list_empty(&group_list))
>>>> +		return -ENODEV;
>>>> +
>>>> +	return 0;
>>>> +}
>>>> +arch_initcall(mpic_timer_init);
>>>
>>> Oh, and don't probe by device_type.
> 
> Actually it does match the compatible.  The device_type is just to
> speed up the search.  I don't think it's a problem unless the device
> type is not mandatory any more for defined types.

Doesn't matter (and I doubt it provides any significant speed up
compared to a search by compatible, and in any case this is not
performance critical).  device_type is deprecated outside certain
specific legacy uses.  Get rid of it.

-Scott