Re: [RFC PATCH] ARM: clocksource: make ARM_GLOBAL_TIMER selectable

From: "Sören Brinkmann" <soren.brinkmann-gjFFaj9aHVfQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] ARM: clocksource: make ARM_GLOBAL_TIMER selectable
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2016 07:27:14 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160226152714.GD3173@xsjsorenbubuntu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56D04D17.6030502-l0cyMroinI0@public.gmane.org>

On Fri, 2016-02-26 at 15:03:19 +0200, Grygorii Strashko wrote:
> On 02/05/2016 01:39 AM, Sören Brinkmann wrote:
> > On Thu, 2016-02-04 at 15:14:47 -0800, Moritz Fischer wrote:
> >> Hi Soeren,
> >>
> >> On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 2:41 PM, Sören Brinkmann
> >> <soren.brinkmann@xilinx.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> But with this change the 'if !CPU_FREQ' becomes obsolete.
> >> I'm confused, could you explain that statement? You don't want people
> >> accidentally running with GT when CPU_FREQ is on, right?
> > 
> > Correct. But with this Kconfig rework you can just deselect it in
> > Kconfig. The generic HAVE_GT could always be selected.
> > 
> 
> 
> Don't know whom should i ask - but what will be the final conclusion here?
> Can it be merged?

I think we don't break anything either way. Would just be some
additional clean up to get rid of that mentioned constraint (which
doesn't really work well anyway in the multi-arch kernel). So, no real
objections to merging it from my side.

	Thanks,
	Sören

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