Hi Rafael, On 30 June 2016 at 05:32, Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 8:15 PM, <fu.wei@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> From: Fu Wei <fu.wei@xxxxxxxxxx> >> >> This patchset: >> (1)Preparation for adding GTDT support in arm_arch_timer >> 1. Move some enums and marcos to header file >> 2. Add a new enum for spi type. >> 3. Improve printk relevant code >> >> (2)Introduce ACPI GTDT parser: drivers/acpi/gtdt.c >> Parse all kinds of timer in GTDT table of ACPI:arch timer, >> memory-mapped timer and SBSA Generic Watchdog timer. >> This driver can help to simplify all the relevant timer drivers, >> and separate all the ACPI GTDT knowledge from them. >> >> (3)Simplify ACPI code for arm_arch_timer >> >> (4)Add GTDT support for ARM memory-mapped timer > > GTDT is ARM-specific AFAICS. yes, you are right, it is. > > If so, why do we need that code to reside in drivers/acpi/ ? Although the GTDT is just for ARM64, but this driver is parsing one of ACPI table, I think that could be treated as ACPI driver. Do I miss something? :-) > > Thanks, > Rafael -- Best regards, Fu Wei Software Engineer Red Hat -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
