On Thursday, June 30, 2016 09:29:59 AM Fu Wei wrote: > 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? :-) Yes, you are. Nobody except for ARM64 will ever need it. Thanks, Rafael -- 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
