From: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
To: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] clocksource/drivers: Prevent clockevent driver unbind
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2025 12:00:08 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aRRouCZKoPYKH5fA@hovoldconsulting.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a728c035-d37c-4e75-89ba-b8081241314f@linaro.org>
On Wed, Nov 12, 2025 at 10:48:22AM +0100, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
> On 11/11/25 16:32, Johan Hovold wrote:
> > Clockevents cannot be deregistered so suppress driver bind attributes to
> > prevent drivers from being unbound and, for example, releasing
> > underlying resources after registration.
>
> For non architected timers, we want to be able to convert the timers as
> modules.
>
> That's an on-going work [1].
>
> Your series assumes we won't convert that into modules, so you do the
> conversion to builtin. But actually, there is a slow move to module
> conversion.
No, that's not the case. The builtin_platform_driver macro still allows
building drivers as modules, it just prevents unloading them.
Johan
prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-11-12 11:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-11-11 15:32 [PATCH 0/3] clocksource/drivers: Prevent clockevent driver unbind Johan Hovold
2025-11-11 15:32 ` [PATCH 1/3] clocksource/drivers/arm_arch_timer_mmio: Prevent " Johan Hovold
2025-11-11 15:45 ` Marc Zyngier
2025-11-26 14:40 ` [tip: timers/clocksource] " tip-bot2 for Johan Hovold
2025-11-11 15:32 ` [PATCH 2/3] clocksource/drivers/nxp-pit: " Johan Hovold
2025-11-12 10:00 ` Daniel Lezcano
2025-11-12 11:01 ` Johan Hovold
2025-11-12 15:20 ` Daniel Lezcano
2025-11-26 14:40 ` [tip: timers/clocksource] " tip-bot2 for Johan Hovold
2025-11-11 15:32 ` [PATCH 3/3] clocksource/drivers/nxp-stm: " Johan Hovold
2025-11-26 14:40 ` [tip: timers/clocksource] " tip-bot2 for Johan Hovold
2025-11-12 9:48 ` [PATCH 0/3] clocksource/drivers: Prevent clockevent " Daniel Lezcano
2025-11-12 11:00 ` Johan Hovold [this message]
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