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Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/24] C6X: time management
From: Mark Salter <msalter@redhat.com>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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On Fri, 2011-09-09 at 16:19 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Wed, 31 Aug 2011, Mark Salter wrote:
> > +	cd->cpumask		= cpumask_of(smp_processor_id());
> > +
> > +	clockevents_register_device(cd);
> > +
> > +	/* Set handler */
> > +	if (cd->irq != NO_IRQ)
> 
> How does a timer device work w/o interrupt ?

Heh, not very well. That check needs to happen earlier so we don't
register the device if we can't find the irq number.

--Mark