Re: Trivial clocksource driver

[Mason <slash.tmp@free.fr>]

Hello Mans,

On 29/09/2015 22:18, Måns Rullgård wrote:

> Mason writes:
> 
>> On 29/09/2015 20:32, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, 29 Sep 2015, Mason wrote:
>>>
>>>> I am trying to submit a new ARM port, and Arnd pointed out that the
>>>> clocksource code could not live in arch/arm/$PLATFORM, but had to
>>>> move to drivers/clocksource (and it had to support DT).
>>>>
>>>> Did I understand correctly? Is this the right place to submit code
>>>> as provided below?
>>>
>>> Yes, drivers/clocksource is the right place. You just need to submit a
>>> formal patch, which includes a proper subject line, changelog, plus
>>> the necessary Makefile and Kconfig modifications.
>>
>> OK, I'll send a formal patch tomorrow.
>> There are no Kconfig modifications, is that OK?
> 
> Why don't you use my driver?  It's even simpler, and it works just fine
> on the 87xx chip.
> 
> https://github.com/mansr/linux-tangox/blob/master/drivers/clocksource/clksrc-tangox.c

As you know, I am using two of your complex drivers, namely
ethernet and interrupt controller (which would have taken me
several weeks to write). I will be submitting them upstream
shortly, is that OK with you?

I'm not using this particular driver of yours because I had
already written the code, and porting it to DT was a good
learning process. This is probably my only opportunity to
actually write any kind of code for this port.

Regards.