From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: tglx@linutronix.de (Thomas Gleixner) Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 12:10:41 +0100 (CET) Subject: [PATCHv2 3/4] clockevents: Add generic timer broadcast function In-Reply-To: <1357742770-15028-4-git-send-email-mark.rutland@arm.com> References: <1357742770-15028-1-git-send-email-mark.rutland@arm.com> <1357742770-15028-4-git-send-email-mark.rutland@arm.com> Message-ID: To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Wed, 9 Jan 2013, Mark Rutland wrote: > Currently, the timer broadcast mechanism is defined by a function > pointer on struct clock_event_device. As the fundamental mechanism for > broadcast is architecture-specific, this means that clock_event_device > drivers cannot be shared across multiple architectures. > > This patch adds an (optional) architecture-specific function for timer > tick broadcast, allowing drivers which may require broadcast > functionality to be shared across multiple architectures. Looks good. If you fixup the first one of the series, I'll take the generic patches and provide a branch to pull for the ARM folks, so the ARM part can go via their tree. Thanks, tglx