[patch 00/16] arm: Replace arm sched_clock by clocksource based sched_clock

Linus Walleij
2011-04-26T07:45:03Z

2011/4/25 john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>:
> On Sun, 2011-04-24 at 09:27 +0200, Linus Walleij wrote:
>> Any reason why we can't simply move *all* of these to
>> drivers/clocksource/* and proceed with consolidation there?
>
> This gives me some pause, as having the clocksources in the platform
> code makes it easier to know what platform needs to be tested when a
> change is made. The rule so far has been if more then one arch can make
> use of it, it should be moved to the drivers/clocksource dir. Otherwise,
> leave it close to any arch specific code that manages the hardware.

That means that by definition anything in a plat-* directory, say e.g.
plat-nomadik/timer.c and plat-omap/dmtimer.c should go into
drivers/clocksource I believe?

Yours,
Linus Walleij