On Wed, Dec 02, 2020 at 01:54:32PM +0100, Marek Szyprowski wrote:
> 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...
Good point. It will however mean that all DTS (including new) will still
have to provide the tick IRQ. I am fine with this.
Best regards,
Krzysztof
