Re: [PATCH 9/9] clocksource: import ARC timer driver

Vineet Gupta
2016-11-03T18:50:45Z

On 11/03/2016 10:33 AM, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
> As now the clksrc-probe is correctly handling the errors, if the rtc and the
> gfrc are both defined in the DT, you can fail to init the rtc one with a simple
> test in the init function:
>
> if (IS_DEFINED(CONFIG_SMP))
> return -EINVAL;
>
> So, you can inconditionaly compile in both RTC and GFRC, no ? That would be
> cleaner and prevent a different kernel config.

That's a very good idea. So now I envision
CONFIG_ARC_TIMERS # legacy TIMER0 / TIMER1
CONFIG_ARC_64BIT_TIMERS # rtc, gfrc

I need this distinction at the min to be able to select them from ARC Kconfig.

-Vineet