Re: [PATCH] input/joystick: use get_cycles on ARMv8

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On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 10:01:49AM -0700, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 04:42:10PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:

> > As with ARM the ARMv8 architecture provides a cycle counter which can be
> > used to provide a high resolution time for the joystick driver and silence
> > the build warning that results from not having a precise timer on ARMv8,
> > making allmodconfig and allyesconfig quieter.

> Applied, although I wonder if it is time to retire whole gamecon subsystem. I
> don't think there are many users left... 

OTOH it doesn't really do much harm either, the rate of updates seems
pretty low.  I was wondering about converting the warning to a runtime
one - it'll probably be more likely to be seen by anyone who is using it
and makes for less of these porting issues but I couldn't quite find the
motivation.

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