[PATCH v2 RESEND 1/2] ARM: arch timer: Set the TVAL before timer is enabled

[rvaswani@codeaurora.org (Rohit Vaswani)]

On 9/15/2012 10:00 AM, David Brown wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 12:41:53AM -0700, Rohit Vaswani wrote:
>> On some hardware, the timer deasserts the interrupt when a
>> new TVAL is written only when the enable bit is cleared.
>> Hence explicitly disable the timer and then program the
>> TVAL followed by enabling the timer.
>> If this order is not followed, there are chances that
>> you would not receive any timer interrupts.
> It's a little unclear to me who you intend to take this patch.  In the
> To field, you've listed Marc, the MSM maintainers, as well as Russell.
> The MSM tree doesn't really make sense, since this is general ARM
> code.  Marc would make sense if you depend on an active patch series
> he is working on, so he could include it.
>
> I'm guessing you meant it for Russell, though, and the rest of us as
> CCs.

Yes, thanks for pointing that out. Sorry if the headers were confusing, 
I will be more mindful of this next time.
>
> Thanks,
> David
>



Thanks,
Rohit Vaswani

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