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From: sudeep.holla@arm.com (Sudeep Holla)
Date: Mon, 18 May 2015 11:43:25 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] ARM: simplify timer initialisation and remove
 arm_timer.h inclusion
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Hi Russell,

On 18/05/15 11:40, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 09:09:47AM -0500, 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.
>
> Exactly.  IMHO this code needs to stay.
>

Thanks for confirming.

Regards,
Sudeep