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From: linux@arm.linux.org.uk (Russell King - ARM Linux)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [RFC PATCH] arm: move timer init to late_timer_init
Date: Tue, 3 May 2011 00:19:19 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110502231919.GH28001@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110502221522.GG13724@game.jcrosoft.org>

On Tue, May 03, 2011 at 12:15:22AM +0200, Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD wrote:
> On 23:22 Mon 02 May     , Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> > On Mon, May 02, 2011 at 10:42:20PM +0200, Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD wrote:
> > > and add global early device init
> > > this will init earlytimer and will try to probe 1 or 2 timers for clockevents
> > > and clocksource
> > 
> > Why should this change the positioning of sched_clock initialization
> > too?
> > 
> > You know, to spend time sorting out the sched_clock crap that platform
> > people came up with, to get sched_clock working at the right point in
> > the init sequence so that everything is happy, and then to have all
> > that work undone one kernel version later... well, why did I even bother.
> so is it ok to put the early init in time_init for you?

If it works there, then there's no problem.  I'm just left wondering why
you decided to try the late_time_init() thing in the first place.  Was
there a specific reason?

  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-05-02 23:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-02 20:42 [RFC PATCH] arm: move timer init to late_timer_init Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2011-05-02 22:22 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-05-02 22:15   ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2011-05-02 22:19     ` [RFC PATCH] arm: add global early device init Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2011-05-02 23:19     ` Russell King - ARM Linux [this message]
2011-05-02 23:17       ` [RFC PATCH] arm: move timer init to late_timer_init Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2011-05-02 23:28         ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-05-02 23:27           ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2011-05-03  4:03 ` [V3 PATCH] arm: add global early device init Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2011-05-06  6:32   ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD

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