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From: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier-5wv7dgnIgG8@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 8/8] clocksource: simplify ACPI code in arm_arch_timer.c
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2015 19:05:15 +0100
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On 27/08/15 14:51, Fu Wei wrote:
> Hi Thomas, Hanjun
> 
> On 27 August 2015 at 21:40, Thomas Gleixner <tglx-hfZtesqFncYOwBW4kG4KsQ@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> On Thu, 27 Aug 2015, Hanjun Guo wrote:
>>>> [1]: https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/7/29/236
>>>>
>>>> If that is ok with you, we will introduce similar DECLARE_ thing
>>>> for clock declare.
>>
>> Yes.
> 
> Thanks
> 
>>
>>> Or we can drop this patch from this patch set, and clean up this
>>> patch when the ACPI_DECLARE() infrastructure is ready for upstream.
>>
>> Works either way. I just noticed that hard coded init thing and
>> decided to rant about it :)
> 
> OK, good idea, this patch will be improve by DECLARE_ thing, then upstream.
> drop this from this patchset.
> 
> Great thanks for your help

You probably want to keep an eye on this:

https://lwn.net/Articles/657238/

which implements the necessary infrastructure. I'd appreciate if you
could give it a go to find out if it works for you.

Thanks,

	M.
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