Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] clocksource: arm_arch_timer: change clocksource name if CP15 unavailable

Will Deacon
2014-09-26T09:26:00Z

On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 08:04:30AM +0100, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
> On 09/18/2014 04:59 PM, Nathan Lynch wrote:
> > The arm and arm64 VDSOs need CP15 access to the architected counter.
> > If this is unavailable (which is allowed by ARM v7), indicate this by
> > changing the clocksource name to "arch_mem_counter" before registering
> > the clocksource.
> >
> > Suggested by Stephen Boyd.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Nathan Lynch <nathan_lynch@mentor.com>
> > Reviewed-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
>
> Hi Nathan,
>
> is it possible to have the acked-by of the different maintainers for the
> other patches ?

FWIW: I acked the series:

http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2014-September/289143.html

There's ongoing debate about whether or not we should have a vdso, but this
series still makes sense in isolation.

Will