On 02/08/2016 01:23 PM, Vineet Gupta wrote: > On Monday 08 February 2016 05:40 PM, Daniel Lezcano wrote: >> On 02/02/2016 11:58 AM, Vineet Gupta wrote: >>> - Remove explicit clocksource setup and let it be done by OF framework >>> by defining CLOCKSOURCE_OF_DECLARE() for various timers >>> >>> - This allows multiple clocksources to be potentially registered >>> simultaneouly: previously we could only do one - as all of them had >>> same arc_counter_setup() routine for registration >>> >>> - Setup routines also ensure that the underlying timer actually exists. >>> >>> - Remove some of the panic() calls if underlying timer is NOT detcted as >>> a fallback clocksource might still be available >>> 1. If GRFC doesn't exist, jiffies clocksource gets registered anyways >>> 2. if RTC doesn't exist, TIMER1 cetainly will take over (as it is >>> always present) >>> >>> Cc: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano at linaro.org> >>> Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta at synopsys.com> >> >> May be it is time to move these drivers into the drivers/clocksource directory >> where they belong to. > > I suppose we could, but that is only possible after this round of "moderization", > i.e. usage of CLOCKSOURCE_OF_DECLARE() et al. > > Plus the move will require a bunch of mechanical crap such as read_aux_reg() which > only ARC defines (similar to headaches Noam had for his clksrc). > > So if we could agree on the sanity of this round of changes, I can work towards > the imminent move into drivers. Ok, sounds good. -- <http://www.linaro.org/> Linaro.org ? Open source software for ARM SoCs Follow Linaro: <http://www.facebook.com/pages/Linaro> Facebook | <http://twitter.com/#!/linaroorg> Twitter | <http://www.linaro.org/linaro-blog/> Blog
