From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: arnd@arndb.de (Arnd Bergmann) Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2015 23:06:03 +0200 Subject: Gemini Soc timers In-Reply-To: References: <1292339307-14336-2-git-send-email-ulli.kroll@googlemail.com> <975d474dd947bcef8d3dd70ef18a5c29@advem.lv> Message-ID: <9777530.lnQDW33Iqo@wuerfel> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Friday 10 July 2015 10:48:26 Linus Walleij wrote: > On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 6:48 PM, Roman Yeryomin wrote: > > [Me] > >> As usual they are just keeping it out of mainline, and this > >> is adding sched_clock() and other goodies so should > >> probably be upstreamed ASAP. > > > > > > This is what I initially submitted here. > > Ah. I missed part of the start of the discussion it seems. > > > But Arnd wanted to see a smaller patch which only fixes gemini timer issue > > (t.i. shed clock being 100Hz instead of 25MHz). > > Also I've submitted 4.1 support yesterday, but patches didn't change much > > comparing to 3.18 > > On the other hand I think the bigger patch is OK actually. > > I rewrote the timer support some time back and did not get > anyone to test it properly at the time, so the patch went in > untested. So this is a fix. The bigger patch seemed a little too verbose to have it backported to stable kernels, so I asked for a minimal fix that could be marked as stable, with the other changes applied on top for the current arm-soc tree. I'm still on parental leave and not dealing with patches directly, so whichever patch we want should get routed through Ulli to arm at kernel.org Arnd