From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752800Ab3KZA2I (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Nov 2013 19:28:08 -0500 Received: from trinity.fluff.org ([89.16.178.74]:36879 "EHLO trinity.fluff.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751852Ab3KZA2F (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Nov 2013 19:28:05 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 1167 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Mon, 25 Nov 2013 19:28:05 EST Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2013 00:08:31 +0000 From: Ben Dooks To: Doug Anderson Cc: Wim Van Sebroeck , Guenter Roeck , Leela Krishna Amudala , Olof Johansson , Tomasz Figa , Kukjin Kim , Ben Dooks , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-samsung-soc@vger.kernel.org, linux-watchdog@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] watchdog: s3c2410_wdt: Only register for cpufreq on CPU_FREQ_S3C24XX Message-ID: <20131126000831.GW12108@trinity.fluff.org> References: <1385420137-32725-1-git-send-email-dianders@chromium.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1385420137-32725-1-git-send-email-dianders@chromium.org> X-Disclaimer: These are my views alone. X-URL: http://www.fluff.org/ User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: ben@trinity.fluff.org X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on trinity.fluff.org); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 02:55:37PM -0800, Doug Anderson wrote: > On modern SoCs the watchdog timer is parented on a clock that doesn't > change every time we have a cpufreq change. That means we don't need > to constantly adjust the watchdog timer, so avoid registering for and > dealing with cpufreq transitions unless we've actually got > CPU_FREQ_S3C24XX defined. The S3C2410 to at-least S3C2440 there is only one PLL/clock-divider set so changing any part of that can change frequency supplied to the watchdog.