Re: [PATCH] clocksource: tegra: enable arch_timer

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On 04/03/2013 01:22 PM, Stephen Warren wrote:
> On 04/03/2013 07:28 AM, Rob Herring wrote:
>> On 04/03/2013 06:32 AM, Joseph Lo wrote:
>>> Architected timer is the local timer for Cortex-A15. Adding the support
>>> for Tegra.
>>>
>>> Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Signed-off-by: Joseph Lo <josephl@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> My patch series to add CLOCKSOURCE_OF_DECLARE support to arch timer and
>> sched_clock enhancements will make this unnecessary:
>>
>> http://www.spinics.net/lists/arm-kernel/msg234597.html
>>
>> Testing would be appreciated.
> 
> Joseph (or Rob), what's the benefit of this change; what works with it
> and/or what breaks without it?

I assume you mean Joseph's change. Well, it enables local timers on A15.
But mine will too for Tegra if you have the arch timer in the dtb.

> Rob, if I did apply this change, and you also apply that series of
> yours, what is the result: compile-time breakage, run-time breakage,
> just some redundant code that needs to be removed again?

Compile-time breakage as the functions called here are being removed.

Rob

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