Re: [PATCH 2/2] rtc: s3c: Remove dead code related to periodic tick handling

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Hi Krzysztof,

On 02.12.2020 13:49, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 02, 2020 at 12:13:18PM +0100, Marek Szyprowski wrote:
>> Support for periodic tick interrupts has been moved from the RTC class to
>> the HR-timers long time ago. Then it has been removed from this driver by
>> commits 80d4bb515b78 ("RTC: Cleanup rtc_class_ops->irq_set_state") and
>> 696160fec162 ("RTC: Cleanup rtc_class_ops->irq_set_freq()"). They however
>> did not remove all the code related to the tick handling. Do it now then.
>>
> Update also the bindings (one IRQ less), please.
>
> Reviewed-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@xxxxxxxxxx>

Well, in theory bindings describe the hardware not the drivers. Hardware 
is still capable of triggering the periodic tick interrupt. It is just a 
Linux kernel policy not to use it at all...

Best regards

-- 
Marek Szyprowski, PhD
Samsung R&D Institute Poland




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