Re: [PATCH v19 00/15] acpi, clocksource: add GTDT driver and GTDT support in arm_arch_timer

Fu Wei
2017-01-17T09:14:31Z

Hi Mark,

On 17 January 2017 at 01:00, Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 02:45:48PM +0800, fu.wei@linaro.org wrote:
>> From: Fu Wei <fu.wei@linaro.org>
>>
>> This patchset:
>> (1)Preparation for adding GTDT support in arm_arch_timer:
>> 1. Move some enums and marcos to header file;
>> 2. Add a new enum for spi type;
>> 3. Improve printk relevant code;
>> 4. Rename some enums and defines;
>
> Can we please rework these first few patches into a series:
>
> 1. Clean up printk() usage
> 2. Rename the type macros
> 3. Rename the PPI enum & enum values
> 4. Move the type macro and PPI enum into a header
> 5. Add new enum for SPIs
>
> Please leave CNTHCL_* as they originally were. It's not part of the
> interface of the driver, and leaving them as they are will save us an
> interdependency with KVM.
>
> I'm happy to queue that immediately, as it's purely structural and
> shouldn't have a functional impact anywhere. That will also shrink the
> series a bit, and we can rebase the following patches atop of that.

Thanks for your suggestion, I have finished this improvement.
It will be in v20.

https://git.linaro.org/people/fu.wei/linux.git/log/?h=topic-gtdt-wakeup-timer_upstream_v20_devel

>
>> 5. Rework PPI determination;
>> 6. Rework counter frequency detection;
>> 7. Refactor arch_timer_needs_probing, move it into DT init call
>> 8. Introduce some new structs and refactor the MMIO timer init code
>> for reusing some common code.
>
> I'll review these in separate replies.
>
> Thanks,
> Mark.

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Best regards,

Fu Wei
Software Engineer
Red Hat