Re: [PATCH v2 4/4] clocksource/drivers/timer-mediatek: Make timer-mediatek become loadable module

[Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@linaro.org>]

On 15/02/2023 00:20, John Stultz wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 14, 2023 at 3:09 AM Krzysztof Kozlowski
> <krzysztof.kozlowski@linaro.org> wrote:
>> On 14/02/2023 11:53, walter.chang@mediatek.com wrote:
>>> From: Chun-Hung Wu <chun-hung.wu@mediatek.com>
>>>
>>> Make the timer-mediatek driver which can register
>>> an always-on timer as tick_broadcast_device on
>>> MediaTek SoCs become loadable module in GKI.
>>
>> Other questions are unanswered. Please do not ignore feedback and
>> respond to it.
>>
> 
> Apologies, I know it can be a pain to repeat yourself, but would you
> clarify which questions were unanswered?
> My initial skim made it seem like the items you raised were addressed
> in some form (though maybe not sufficiently?).

Questions were:

1. IOW, does the system boot fine? What's the impact of this being a module?

2. It is not the first time there is a proposal to convert the timers to
modules. After asking, nobody came with a real study regarding the
impact of the modularization of these drivers vs the time core framework
and the benefit.

3. We need to tests that involve loading and unloading of such
modules to see if the transition between this timer as broadcast and one
CPU itself as broadcast happens correctly and system survives across such
loading and unloading of the modules.


All these emails or comments were simply ignored.


Best regards,
Krzysztof