From: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
To: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com>
Cc: Anatol Pomozov <anatol.pomozov@gmail.com>,
Marc Zyngier <Marc.Zyngier@arm.com>,
Lorenzo Pieralisi <Lorenzo.Pieralisi@arm.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-tegra@vger.kernel.org" <linux-tegra@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] arm64: kernel: Copy register_persistent_clock() to arm64 source subtree
Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2014 10:40:26 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141107104025.GC4585@leverpostej> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <545C4783.8070506@nvidia.com>
On Fri, Nov 07, 2014 at 04:16:03AM +0000, Stephen Warren wrote:
> On 11/06/2014 05:25 PM, Anatol Pomozov wrote:
> > +Stephen
> >
> > This patch is for tegra20_timer that uses register_persistent_clock().
> > I did not find any way to share the same arch code for arm/arm64.
> >
> > Actually this register_persistent_clock() does not look arm specific
> > at all. Would it be better to move it somewhere outside of arch/?
>
> No CC to linux-tegra@ or the other Tegra maintainers?
>
> Yes, I think it'd be best not to have arch-specific APIs, or cut/paste
> the same code into multiple places.
Agreed. This looks in no way architecture specific, and having this in
common code would be preferable to copying.
Mark.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-11-07 10:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-11-07 0:21 [PATCH] arm64: kernel: Copy register_persistent_clock() to arm64 source subtree Anatol Pomozov
2014-11-07 0:25 ` Anatol Pomozov
2014-11-07 4:16 ` Stephen Warren
2014-11-07 10:40 ` Mark Rutland [this message]
2014-11-07 16:24 ` Anatol Pomozov
2014-11-07 16:38 ` Mark Rutland
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