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From: sudeep.holla@arm.com (Sudeep Holla)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] ARM: simplify timer initialisation and remove arm_timer.h inclusion
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2015 15:19:01 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <554239D5.4080301@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAL_JsqK8pPLCkrVFHaWr-RhOkPzaF+D_kZ5h9BahvN7CoYZO0w@mail.gmail.com>



On 30/04/15 15:09, Rob Herring wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 5:44 AM, Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com> wrote:
>> The header asm/hardware/arm_timer.h is included in various machine
>> specific files to access TIMER_CTRL and initialise to a known state.
>> However that's not required as the clock{source,event} driver timer-sp
>> initialises all the timer being used.
>
> I believe the idea is not to initialize the timers being used, but the
> ones not being used and perhaps left running by the bootloader. Cases
> where the interrupt is shared could cause a problem.
>

Ah OK, makes sense. I will wait for Russell to confirm. The main idea
was to keep the header file having offsets local to driver/clocksource
and avoid sharing it in include/linux but looks like that's not possible.

Regards,
Sudeep

  reply	other threads:[~2015-04-30 14:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-04-30 10:44 [PATCH 0/2] ARM: move Dual-Timer SP804 driver to drivers/clocksource Sudeep Holla
2015-04-30 10:44 ` [PATCH 1/2] ARM: simplify timer initialisation and remove arm_timer.h inclusion Sudeep Holla
2015-04-30 14:09   ` Rob Herring
2015-04-30 14:19     ` Sudeep Holla [this message]
2015-05-15 18:03       ` Sudeep Holla
2015-05-18 10:33         ` Catalin Marinas
2015-05-18 10:38           ` Sudeep Holla
2015-05-18 10:42       ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2015-05-18 10:44         ` Sudeep Holla
2015-05-18 10:40     ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2015-05-18 10:43       ` Sudeep Holla
2015-04-30 10:44 ` [PATCH 2/2] ARM: move Dual-Timer SP804 driver to drivers/clocksource Sudeep Holla
2015-05-18 12:44 ` [PATCH v2 0/2] " Sudeep Holla
2015-05-18 12:44   ` [PATCH v2 1/2] ARM: introduce sp804_timer_disable and remove arm_timer.h inclusion Sudeep Holla
2015-05-18 12:44   ` [PATCH v2 2/2] ARM: move Dual-Timer SP804 driver to drivers/clocksource Sudeep Holla
2015-05-18 13:47   ` [PATCH v2 0/2] " Russell King - ARM Linux
2015-05-18 14:05     ` Sudeep Holla
2015-05-18 14:34   ` Thomas Gleixner
2015-05-18 15:32     ` Sudeep Holla

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