From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tony Lindgren Subject: Re: OMAP1: unnecessary timer interrupt handler code? Date: Mon, 9 May 2011 09:03:35 +0300 Message-ID: <20110509060332.GV27860@atomide.com> References: <20110508162800.GM27807@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from mho-04-ewr.mailhop.org ([204.13.248.74]:64807 "EHLO mho-02-ewr.mailhop.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752084Ab1EIGDg (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 May 2011 02:03:36 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20110508162800.GM27807@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> Sender: linux-omap-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-omap@vger.kernel.org To: Russell King - ARM Linux Cc: linux-omap@vger.kernel.org * Russell King - ARM Linux [110508 19:24]: > MPU timer 2 is used on OMAP1 for the clock source and scheduler clock. > It registers an interrupt, which counts the number of overflows of > this timer. However, this counter is only referenced by the interrupt > handler. > > So, it seems that the following code serves very little purpose. Can > it be simply deleted? Seems safe to me. This is probably some left over legacy code from long time ago. Regards, Tony